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very basically, The card uses it's own RAM much like the system does. &nbsp;And similarly, if the card runs out of free RAM, it looks elsewhere for room to work. &nbsp;This would typically be system RAM unless the space is not available.<br />
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I would aim for something with more RAM than 8MB. &nbsp;With the way things are these days, you wont be happy for very long with an 8MB card if you are trying to do 3D intensive work or gaming.
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very basically, The card uses it's own RAM much like the system does.  And similarly, if the card runs out of free RAM, it looks elsewhere for room to work.  This would typically be system RAM unless the space is not available.

I would aim for something with more RAM than 8MB.  With the way things are these days, you wont be happy for very long with an 8MB card if you are trying to do 3D intensive work or gaming.

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Much more info than I was hoping to get - thanks!
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Much more info than I was hoping to get - thanks!

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I quote from another post: &quot;...For graphics, consider getting bigtime ram for bigtime graphics card. &nbsp;I hear that some new tools and games suffer with less than 32 MB while their 3D cards normaly do not slot half that high...&quot;<br />
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My question - how do video cards use system RAM? If I add an 8MB video card to my 128MB Win98 system, will graphics-intensive apps (games) look to use some of that 128MB system RAM? 
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I quote from another post: "...For graphics, consider getting bigtime ram for bigtime graphics card.  I hear that some new tools and games suffer with less than 32 MB while their 3D cards normaly do not slot half that high..."

My question - how do video cards use system RAM? If I add an 8MB video card to my 128MB Win98 system, will graphics-intensive apps (games) look to use some of that 128MB system RAM? 

RAM for video

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