Charles Angelich wrote in a message to Tom Walker:

 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'.

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

 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.

I wouldn't want it any other way.

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