Asus motherboard? -- never again!

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 09:25:59AM -0400, Jose wrote:
> Thanks for the great advice.
>
> one question tough, you mentioned you tend to ignore the onboard video,  
> why?, I see all these motherboards advertising nvidia or ATI video  
> chips, that means you get an actual lower nvidia card included or it's  
> just for compatibility?

You get very low end.  Lower than any card made.  They almost always
use shared memory, which means your CPU gets to loose a bunch of memory
bandwidth just to drive your video chip.

I have no interest in wasting the bandwidth I paid a lot for already
just to save a bit on a real video card.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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