Re: Video Card..

3GB. I have 4 installed not counting the 1GB of video ram on the two video 
cards.

Robert


"JD" <JD@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> What does your system say? Control Panel, System, General tab. Computer.
>
> Robert Barnett wrote:
>> Interesting as on my XP and my Vista system both with 4GB of Ram and
two 
>> ATI Radeon 1650 Pro cards each with 512MB Windows re****ts only the
system 
>> memory and not the video ram. I know some laptop computers use system 
>> memory for video memory but I have never seen a desktop system do this.

>> How do you know that .25GB is the video ram and just part of the 4GB?
>>
>>
>> "JD" <JD@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Robert Barnett wrote:
>>>> If I am not mistaken the video ram is not calculated as part of the 
>>>> system ram. As for memory on the a video card I would suggest 512MB. 
>>>> Based on things I have seen hinted at by Adobe people the next
version 
>>>> of Photoshop is going to make very good use of GPU and memory.
>>>
>>> I was told a 32 bit operating system like Windows XP only has 4GB of 
>>> memory address space.
>>>
>>> On the new XP system, I installed 4GB of dual layer ram and a video
card 
>>> with 256 MB of ram. Under System Properties, it recognizes 3.25GB of 
>>> ram.
>>>
>>> I have not had a chance to play with PS on the new XP system since I
had 
>>> some problems with the original motherboard.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>>  JD..
>>
>
> -- 
>  JD..