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[_r.u.s.s.]

Originally Posted by dosraider

*pokes fingers in _r.u.s.s. eyes.*

i can't see anything, i must be missing my graphic adapter

[jg007]

Originally Posted by dosraider

You can -(and, of course, may)- argue all that you want, jg007, integrated graphics are ALWAYS less when compared to an uptodate graphical card.
In fact even a modern integrated one is minor compared to many older(?) graphical cards.
And fact is: shared mem sucks.

:nuts: I didnt say that they were equal!, just that an intergrated 6200 will more than cope with most older ( and a few newer ) games

yeah, shared memory sux but if you have 1gb you won't really miss that small but of memory when playing those games

[dosraider]

Lesson numero 1:
You never, NEVER, have too much RAM.
Lesson numero 2:
Your shared memory must be managed, eats valuable ressources and CPU time.
Lesson numero 3:
You NEVER use your comp only for gaming, and the day you will use graph progs, or want to shrink a DVD or whatever whatnot...., you gonna need all the ressources you can get.
Lesson numero 4:
Your 128MB (or whatever) shared memory will cause your OS to access the swap file much earlier and much more then when those MBs are free, swap file is fucking slow.

Plenty more to add but I'm really too lazy.

As said before, even a cheap Graphical card boost up your whole system.
BENCHMARK it.