I'm getting another free monitor, what are your guys thoughts on dual monitors? Is it cool for a bit then just get annoying? or is it nice and beneficial?
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Jump to PostI think only people who are heavily into graphics and video editing could get much practical use out of it...
Jump to PostMy card doesnt steal sys memory, and also runs games perfectly fine.
Jump to Postit does, unless its an XPS or something
If its an ATI card check its name under Catalyst. If it has the word "Hypermemory" in it then it steals sytstem RAM
The same with budget desktop cards. A lot of these cheap "512 mb" cards are actually 128 …
Jump to PostAgain, My card does not steal memory from the system, but I did get one detail wrong.
I've looked it up, and its 128MB not 256 as I first thought. The laptop is a 2 year old HP Compaq nx8220, and the graphics card is an ATI Radeon X600.
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Jump to Postyeah there are a lot of real cheap cards which claim to be 512 MB and steal from the system memory so much that the system becomes slow.
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