Re: [Thinkpad] OT: reccomendations for desktop

Ah yes, I knew you would find something to comment about.
I said exactly what you said, system memory is shared for tectures.
And yes, I do know what the AGP Aperture is for, but it does not exist on
all machines
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Graham" <grahamj@virtue.cx>
To: "Bruce Markowitz" <scosgt@worldnet.att.net>
Cc: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] OT: reccomendations for desktop

> On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 02:57:14PM -0500, Bruce Markowitz wrote:
> > (although ALL AGP memory is somewhat shared as to texture memory)
>
> This is kinda backwards, it's normal memory that is shared to the AGP card
for textures. The GART allows the AGP card to use an in-memory texture.
It's not all memory either just the memory you allocate via the "AGP
Arperture" setting in your BIOS (bet you were wondering what that was for).
>
> Perhaps you're confusing it with the AGP memory being mapped into the
address space?
>
> J.
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Cottrell, Eric" <ecottrell@doble.com>
> > To: "Bruce Markowitz" <scosgt@worldnet.att.net>; "Dennis Breslin"
> > <dbreslin@ctol.net>; "Thinkpad list (new)" <Thinkpad@stderr.org>
> > Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 2:49 PM
> > Subject: RE: [Thinkpad] OT: reccomendations for desktop
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > >From what I hear built-in AGP graphics is not recommended for gaming.
It is
> > slow.
> >
> > 73 Eric
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bruce Markowitz [mailto:scosgt@worldnet.att.net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 5:52 PM
> > To: Dennis Breslin; Thinkpad list (new)
> > Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] OT: reccomendations for desktop
> >
> >
> > I agree about the AGP slot, but it does have AGP graphics built in, so
with
> > additional memory it can do games.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dennis Breslin" <dbreslin@ctol.net>
> > To: "Thinkpad list (new)" <Thinkpad@stderr.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 5:35 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] OT: reccomendations for desktop
> >
> >
> > > Last Friday they were selling their low end for
> > > $323 with an education discount! Thats with
> > > a free 15" flat or 19" crt. Problem is the 2400
> > > is crippled - it has no AGP slot. But even now
> > > for $500 (w/shipping) its a tempting offer.
> > >
> > > Dennis Breslin
> > >
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