Went for the Elbox deal!!!!

[Darrin]

Excellent.  

I've got the 256MB Radeon card in my A4000 and a PCI USB card.  I don't think you're going to notice your "RAM struggling to be read" in the real world outside of benchmarking.

Get a nice LCD widescreen monitor to go with it.  I bought a ViewSonic with DVI and VGA inputs.  I connected my Indivision to the VGA and the Radeon to the DVI.  All I do it press a button on the monitor to toggle between the inputs.  If the RTG screen is closed then the "no signal" causes it to flip back to the native VGA input without pressing the button.

Here's my 1920 x 1080 Workbench:
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b134/darrin01311/grab2.jpg

[Darrin]

Hi,

@Piru,

See the above post,

If you examine Darrin's post, you will see that it just bubbles with enthusiasm. Darrin gives pointers, gets rid of any negitive waves by previous posts and then gives some thoughts on what get and do. Very nice post Darrin, I hope that Piru has learned something on how to give a positive post.

smerf

Cheers Smerf, but I doubt it.  

Don't be too hard on Piru though, when he does decide to help people he can be invaluable.  Unfortunately when it comes to certain subjects it is like waving a red sheet in front of a bull.  

PS.  Have I mentioned how much I love my Mediator, Radeon and USB card?  :p

[Darrin]

@J-Golden
Congrats

Just curious, but are there preferences for assigning the vram as fast ram? Would be nice if you could assign some vram as a swap partition to use with a virtual memory program like gigamem.  That way actual fast ram could be given priority until it drops below a defined size.
Or would that be counter productive vs. harddrive swap space 'cos of the read speed of vram?

As far as I'm aware the Radeon memory is the lowest priority anyway.

In my case I currently have 1MB Chip, 16MB Fast (on mobo), 64MB Fast on my Warp Engine and then 192 Fast on my Radeon (I have 64MB reserved at the moment - you can adjust it by entering a value into a text file).

[Darrin]

That's a nice WB, except the damn taskbar :p that reminds me of Windows.

The taskbar is now gone.  

[Darrin]

I am confused about the critical responses to Piru`s completely reasonable post which simply supplied accurate information - what have MACs got to do with it and what would have been an appropriate response then?  Just to humour the original poster and say `yes, vram reads are very fast`?

Strange...

I think it is the fact that he had only negative things to say... as usual when it comes to anything other than MorphOS.

It is like when a friend buys a Fiat car.  It is always polite to say something like "Nice colour!" before ripping it to shreds.

[Darrin]

although i may not agree with just everything piru says, though usually he is right. likely even on subjects i do not agree with him, given he has much more knowledge than me. and whats considered his negativity is just rational sane thinking and facts. whatever it concerns os4, mos or original amiga. i dont understand why we should be positive just for the sake of it instead to be honest.

I didn't say we should be "just positive", just fair and polite.  I'm certainly not going to argue with Piru about the speed of the RAM on the Radeon card, but I will say that I very much doubt that the average user is going to notice.

It is a bit like the SCSI v IDE argument.  SCSI fans leap on any suggestion to use an IDE adapter and quickly point out the superior speed of SCSI, etc, etc.  However, in real-life usage on typical Amiga-sized files, do we actually see any difference?  Do we need to fart around with expensive, hard-to-find drives and bloody terminators just to load a data file half a second faster?  

[Darrin]

And by that you're arguing that I was unfair and/or impolite?

Stating the uncomfortable facts is never popular and the messenger is an easy target.

As to why I ever bothered: I wouldn't care a single bit, except in this case where it was specifically said to be "super fast", which it clearly is not. If fact, quite the opposite.

Just remember that I didn't fire the first shot and you do have an abrasive personality.  I've even seen a post where you admit it and that you don't give a toss.

Like I said, I'm not arguing that it is slower than other Fast RAM, but we're talking about the Amiga here and I think that RAM is going to be fast enough when required.  I'm pretty sure mine only get's used when I suf the net and have multiple windows open.

[Darrin]

I'm puzzled. Did someone say something impolite or unfair? If so, who?
If not, what do you mean by "fire a shot"?

by "fire the first shot", I'm pointing out that I wasn't the person who complained about the tone of your post.  Yet you feel the need to address it with me.

My comments about being polite are fairly obvious.  If someone buys something and it excited about it then it isn't "polite" to just jump in and say "well I think it is crap", even if that wasn't your intention.  Somehow I don't think you'll ever be a diplomat.  

[Darrin]

smerf was joking you know.

I thought it was pointing out the bleeding obvious.