[plug] SiSsy chipsets

[John Summerfield]

> John Summerfield wrote:
> > > Sigh. They come out on new motherboards. "Built in 8MB video card," the
> > > box says, failing to mention that those eight megabytes come from system
> > > RAM _and_ the video card competes with the CPU for the right to access
> > > said system RAM. The SiS chip in question has built into it (of all
> > > things), a video controller, an AGP bridge, and dual IDE interfaces.
> > > Sounds like a car with an integrated radiator, clutch and sump to me.
> 
> > My daughter has a system with the same M/b. It'w working very nicely
> > thankyou. Yes, we know that the vide RAM comes from system RAM. We don't
> > think the odd 4 Mbytes is particularly significant out of the 32 Mbytes
> > she has (or the 96 I have).
> 
> I don't think you were being attacked personally, John - he was just
> commenting on the motherboard in general. :-)

I didn't either; I was making the point that thus far, two computers here 
with SiS chipsets have no identified problems AND that they are sound 
economic choices for many people.

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John Summerfield
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