nvidia

[Jerry Natowitz]

I'm going out on a limb and guessing that the "new" graphics card is a 
TurboCache model.  These add main memory to the usually small amount of 
on-board memory.  I remember buying a 6200 TC 128MB card, only to find 
out that it only had 32MB onboard, adding 96MB out of main memory.

Thus, adding the new board actually decreased the amount of memory 
available to the rest of the system.  In my case, have 1024MB, loosing 
96 didn't make much difference.

BTW: I have some spare PC133 and PC2100 that I'm willing to part with 
very inexpensively, if either of those might work.


	Jerry Natowitz
	j.natowitz-KealBaEQdz4 at public.gmane.org


Laura Conrad wrote:
>>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Pieri <richard.pieri-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> writes:
> 
> 
>     Richard> RAM is fairly cheap.  I recently bought 4GB for my
>     Richard> MacBook Pro (early 2008 vintage).  Cost about $70 and
>     Richard> that includes the overnight shipping.
> 
> I don't think this machine will take more than 2G and I already have
> 1G, and I really don't want to spend money on it.  I'm expecting to
> get a newer machine in not very much time, and there's a cost to
> taking the machine apart even if I find free memory, especially during
> pollen season.
> 
> I wasn't expecting the graphics card to fix the thrashing, just to
> mabe make redraw during the thrashing a little less agonizing.  Is my
> picture of what graphics cards with memory on them do completely
> wrong?  If so, why do people pay money for graphics cards with memory
> on them?
>