I don't have experience with this paticular card, but 2 MB sounds low to
me in todays environment. The big question I would ask--does the PC
have an actual card/AGP slot, or is it just a chip on the board. If it
has an actual AGP slot, you could easily upgrade to a newer vid card and
not worry about the onboard video. You can find either an 8MB Millenium
G200 or 16 MB Banshee for right around $100.00. They are both excellent
cards.
Dan Shaughnessy
>
> I cam considering purchasing a Compaq Presario 5050. It comes with
> 96megs of ram, 8 gig hd, win 98 and tons of software. They have it
> connected to a 333MHZ Celeron for only $679 at CompaqWorks.
>
> The one feature I am not sure about is the video card which is an ATI 3D
> Rage LT Pro Graphics with 2 MB 100MHZ SyncGraphics video memory.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with this type card. It seems like an
> puny amount of video ram and it can only be upgraded to 4MB.
>
> Could it be that it uses some of the system ram to help offset the small
> amount on the card?
>
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