Charles Angelich wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

CA>> My brothers sound card seems a 'winsound card' of some sort and it 
CA>> too steals main memory and stutters when browsing the Internet 
CA>> with the 'winmodem'. 

RJT> Know what a sound card and a modem have in common? They both use a 
RJT> DSP. Why put two of them on a MB, if a mfr can save a few bucks by 
RJT> putting only one on there? :-( 

CA> Compared to what the customer loses in the bargain I view the manuf
CA> as an *ass.

Agreed.

CA>> My 450mhz can stream video better than his 800mhz in part because 
CA>> the 450mhz has a 16meg vid card with it's own memory onboard. 

RJT> I wouldn't want it any other way. 

CA> Nor me. :-) 

I can see that I'm going to have to be fairly careful in terms of my
upgrades from here on out...

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