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Garrett Cooper writes:

>  A good rule of thumb: Don't buy a video card with more RAM than
>  1/8 to 1/4 of the system RAM, because the RAM is shared with the
>  system RAM, which means you have less overall system RAM to use
>  for apps.

	Is that still true?  (I haven't been following this closely.)
About sharing system memory, that is.  It was my impression that was
true for AGP, but not for PCIe.


				Robert Huff