I was planning on buying an HIS Radeon X1650 Pro PCI-E 512MB GDDR2 video card but I only have 512MB onboard system RAM. (I know they are the same amount but I read a magazine stating "On-board Memory should be a greater amount than Video Memory."|||technically: no, but in reality yes. RAM is always a much larger commodity than vid card memory. More ram will increase a systems performance much so than an increase in video memory. If worst comes to worst, you can allocated some of your ram to be dedicated to the GPU so you actually have more graphics memory, but only do this if you have integrated graphics (which don't have onboard memory...duh.. thats why they are integrated) or if you have ram to spare (which doesnt occur often). You should probably upgrade to 1gig ram as it is one of the biggest "bang for your buck" upgrades out there right now. If i recall, tiger direct had a sale for a ddr400 (pc 3200) 512mb ram stick for $10 after rebate (though it was exorborantly overpriced to begin with). Heres the link if you want to check it out:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/…
I got an e-mial from them a while back about it.It had a $30 mail in rebate and ann instant $20 rebate to amke it $10 but i dont know when that ended.
Hope this helps!|||Increase your onboard memory to 1GB. You wont have any problems.|||its true
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