Felix Miata wrote:

>Mike O'Connor wrote: 
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>
>>Franklin wrote: 
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>>>>Felix Miata wrote:
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>>>>
>>>>Why do you think you need 32M? What resolution and colors do you plan
>>>>to run?
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>>>>
>>>What does the other operating system do to use all the memory available
>>>in video cards today? I was just looking at cards with 128m and 256m.
>>>Is there any use in OS/2 for more video memory?
>>>      
>>>
>>I frankly don't know - I know under OS/2-eCs with a 4MB card, I can have
>>up to about 38-pages of desktop real-estate, running 1024 x 768 at 16bpp
>>color at 75Hz refresh or better- not sure whether that also pertains to
>>24bpp also. Presumably only for heavy gamers using Direct-X and those
>>using 32-bit colour with very large graphics projects/video-editing etc?
>>The G450 would be a lot faster than anything I have here currently!
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>
>AFAIK, all cards use the same RAM for the same resolution in OS/2 for
>any given refresh. More RAM means higher resolution at higher refresh. 
>
>All RAM in excess of what is required for the resolution & refresh you
>run is wasted/unused. Most of my cards have 4M RAM and run OS/2 or Linux
>at 1400x1050x16{at}60 or 1280x960x16{at}60. I can see no improvement of any
>kind from higher refresh. YMMV.
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>
60Hz here is OK, but I prefer 75 to get absolutely no border on my 
Trinitrons.

>You guys missed out :-) 
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5131520706
>  
>

Hi Felix,

That sure was a great buy! Take it from the photo that all four were the 
same - singlehead versions!
I have got to get my eBayWatch/2 set up again so I can bid-snipe, when 
other things are sorted out here.

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Regards,
Mike

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