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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What advantage is there with the higher amounts of
video card RAM?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does more RAM still support larger desktop areas,
as they used to in the past?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=jyavenard@gmail.com href="mailto:jyavenard@gmail.com">Jean-Yves
Avenard</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
href="mailto:mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz">MythTV in NZ</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 04, 2009 8:20
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [mythtvnz] New Mac Mini
maybe a good VDPAU frontend?</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Hi<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>2009/3/4 Nick Rout <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com">nick.rout@gmail.com</A>></SPAN><BR>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid"><BR>Yes,
expensive and if you look carefully the version with 1G RAM only<BR>seems to
only allocate 128M to the video card, the one with 2G seems<BR>to allocate
256.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><BR>If you install more than 1Gig , then 256MB will be allocated
according to the early test<BR> <BR></DIV>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">VDPAU
at higher resolutions seems to need 512M. Will this apple
work?<BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><BR>Nah, my 8600GT with 256MB can do everything including Advanced 2X on
HD material..<BR><BR><BR></DIV></DIV><BR>
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