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Invisible wrote:
>>> - Why the GeForce 9-series? Price, or...?
>>
>> Mostly price... Though, I'm not much of a gamer, either, so I don't
>> need the latest super-fast display.
>
> Oh, well, if you don't need 3D graphics, then you don't need 3D
> graphics. ;-)
>
Then again, I could get the PCIe-16 version of the card I have in my
machine now, a Radeon 3850 .. which according to a benchmark I was just
looking at outperforms the NVIDIA GeForce 9500 by quite a bit.
>>> - Why only 2GB RAM? (I can't believe I'm actually saying that out
>>> loud...)
>>
>> Not quite ready to run a 64-bit OS, don't need the extra memory. I've
>> seen very little appreciable gain with more than 2GB of ram, and
>> memory is easily upgradeable later.
>
> OK, fair enough.
>
> My laptop is running Vista 32-bit. (Interesting manufacturing choice...)
> But that came with 3GB of RAM, which I have upgraded to 4GB. (No, I
> didn't really notice any difference. But RAM is cheap ATM.)
--
~Mike
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