[newbie] Low-profile graphics cards

2002-08-09 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a Dell Optiplex GX150. It's a good machine - quiet, fast, uses only 145W at full tilt with the flat panel, runs Mandrake effortlessly - but its sole weakness is the onboard i815 graphics chipset, which has no dedicated RAM and is prone to

Re: [newbie] Low-profile graphics cards

2002-08-09 Thread Charlie M.
On Friday 09 August 2002 06:00 am, Alastair Scott wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a Dell Optiplex GX150. It's a good machine - quiet, fast, uses only 145W at full tilt with the flat panel, runs Mandrake effortlessly - but its sole weakness is the onboard i815

Re: [newbie] Low-profile graphics cards

2002-08-09 Thread Charlie M.
On Friday 09 August 2002 06:00 am, Alastair Scott wrote: snip Please ignore my previous reply. I pasted something in the wrong box and hit send without looking at it. What I wanted to reply to you was the only way I've ever found to get an answre to this exact question (it has come up

Re: [newbie] Low-profile graphics cards

2002-08-09 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 09 Aug 2002 9:37 pm, Charlie M. wrote: On Friday 09 August 2002 06:00 am, Alastair Scott wrote: snip Please ignore my previous reply. I pasted something in the wrong box and hit send without looking at it. What I wanted to reply to

Re: [newbie] Low-profile graphics cards

2002-08-09 Thread Steve Jeppesen
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 13:00:14 +0100 Alastair Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Dell Optiplex GX150. It's a good machine - quiet, fast, uses only 145W at full tilt with the flat panel, runs Mandrake effortlessly - but its sole weakness is the onboard i815 graphics chipset, which has no

Re: [newbie] Low-profile graphics cards

2002-08-09 Thread Charlie M.
On Friday 09 August 2002 03:01 pm, Alastair Scott wrote: snip On further investigation the whole issue is difficult, mainly because of the problem you note but also because there's not even standard terminology ('half-height', 'low-profile' and various other expressions are used). There are