Tony, 

I am assuming you are talking about a display adapter that doesn't have its
own onboard memory but uses a portion of the system RAM, speciifed in BIOS
or Device Manager.

The answer to this question really depends on what you plan on doing with
the system and the type of operating system you are running. For normal
spreadsheets and word processing, 16MB would be sufficient, but for more
graphic orientated applications or CADD work, then you should allocate
32-64MB.

If you are running Windows XP with 512MB of RAM, then I'd set it for 32MB
for all-around general applications and see how that works. The remaining
480MB of RAM would be plenty adequate for running the normal windows
processes.

Larry A. Kaduce
 


-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Mayer

I think I posted this before but it got kicked back to me.  My thoughts were
along the lines of - How much video memory do you have allocated in the
bios?  Windows will not see that allocated video memory as system memory,
which will change the amount reported.

Tony Mayer
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