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 PCBUILD only works if you contribute. Send your messages to be posted to: [log in to unmask]