On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 11:55:37 -0400 Dan Ritter <[email protected]> wrote:
> You can allocate up to 768MB of RAM via BIOS options. This > affects the complexity of the graphics that can be rendered but > doesn't affect the speed very much. > > The motherboard *should* have a PCIe2.0 x16 slot available for a > better graphics card. If so, you can get a new-in-box Radeon > 5450 for about $50 US, which will be roughly 3x faster and use > its own RAM instead of the main RAM. > > -dsr- Thanks for the reply. It's an HP (Compaq) CQ5826, it only has two open x1 slots on the motherboard. There are no memory settings in the BIOS. https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03054469 A Radeon 5450 is what I bought for the other desktop (also an HP/Compaq), which has x1, x16 and legacy PCI slots, despite being two years /older/ than the CQ5826. That has an on-board NVIDIA GPU which has caused issues with Linux, it would crash if I used certain desktop environments. With the new Radeon card in that, it now runs like a brand new machine. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
