thanks, I thought i810e uses my celeron processor. Right now I am trying to install BeOS, it is really cool, and it doesn't have any partitioning problems, but it doesn't work with my i810e video chip. I was thinking to put this 1 meg S3 card in, but wishing to know if the performance will be degraded too much under windows and linux. Thanks again Eric On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, civileme wrote: > On Thursday 26 July 2001 13:12, Lin wrote: > > I had an i810 shared memory video accelerator(up to 11mb sdram), will it > > make a difference if instead I put in a 1 MB S3 trio 64 v2 video card to > > run Linux? > > > > I couldn't really find the video accelerator on my Motherboard, I am > > worrying it is actually using my processor to do all the work... > > > > Thanks all > > > > Eric > > It would absolutely assure that you had no video acceleration, and it would be > non-trivial to configure. > > Actually the video accelerator is buried in the Northbridge of the i810 Chipset. > The new NVidia Chipset is designed the same way, and no one can fault its > projected performance. > > Civileme > >
