[Watford] New machine

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 05:19:38PM +0100, David Edmondson wrote:

> Compared to what? Most of the motherboard graphics solutions do use system
> memory, but they are also generally low-end,
> ...
> Losing a relatively small amount of RAM for graphics seems insignificant in a
> 32G system, if that's your concern.

No, it is not the amount of RAM that would make a difference, but the continued
use of RAM to keep an image displayed ... effectively reducing RAM bandwidth,
and since CPUs are faster than RAM anyway: RAM bandwidth is a limiting factor.
A graphics card will come with its own RAM to refresh from and would only need
to talk to the rest of the system when the display was being changed - I think.

> Whilst I understand that you don't want to open the case once it's built, you
> could always add a distinct graphics card later if the motherboard based
> approach doesn't work.

To be truthful: I don't know how/if I could tell.
Again: part of the learning exercise.

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