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gee thanx an i went all that way to try sell ya XBox to

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Originally posted by atownjoe
dodgy Wal-Mart computer... it only had 192 Megs o RAM compared to the sdvertised 256... returning

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i bet you dont have a video card. if it uses on board video the other 64 mb went into video.

makes sense... she's returning, this one, and if we have the same problem next time, i'll have her know what you said.

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Originally posted by atownjoe
if we have the same problem next time

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its not a problem its how it works....
laptops usually run that way and so do low end computers. if you ever hear someone saying 64 mb video card or 256 mb video card its because it has that much ram dedicated to it purely for video. generally the higher the ram value the better the performance, but a higher ram on a lower end GPU (graphics processing unit) can still be worse than a lower ram value on a top end card (at the time of writing a high end card would be an ati radion 9800 or a nvidia 5900

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Originally posted by lizard.boy

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Originally posted by atownjoe
if we have the same problem next time

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its not a problem its how it works....
laptops usually run that way and so do low end computers. if you ever hear someone saying 64 mb video card or 256 mb video card its because it has that much ram dedicated to it purely for video. generally the higher the ram value the better the performance, but a higher ram on a lower end GPU (graphics processing unit) can still be worse than a lower ram value on a top end card (at the time of writing a high end card would be an ati radion 9800 or a nvidia 5900

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problem = what we don't want... if she gets a higher rate computer... i.e. Dell Dimension, we'll have solved the problem