At 12:31 PM 12/25/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello and Merry Christmas to the members of the list.
>
>   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?
>
>Thanks to those who respond
>
>John Farrow

Merry Christmas.

My Father just purchased the 5050 at a local retailer here in NJ.  It runs
great for the price, but I have to say that it is slower than my Pentium 233
MMX.  It may be due to the video, but I just think the Celeron 333 is a fairly
slow chip.

If it was me, I'd toss in $200 extra and go for a PII or an AMD K6 chip.

When setting up the computer for him, I did not notice a setting to use system
RAM for the video.  It could be there, I just didn't notice it and I went all
through the BIOS.


Eric

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