RADEON 9250 128MB with mediator?

[Karlos]

I would imagine the Radeon's VRAM would not be particularly fast as general purpose Fast RAM. VRAM is slow to read from at the best of times and then you have the mediator itself in the middle.

I thought the main reason for using VRAM in this fashion was to allow DMA to/from other PCI devices?

[Karlos]

Well i have an 030 accelerator w/64mb would this be enough to run a decent desktop with a reasonable resolution?

I ran a 1600x1200 with an 8MiB BVision board on a system with 64MiB for a while before maxing out the accelerator card to 256MiB, so I can't see why not. System ram is generally only used for non-displayable image data, otherwise your video cards memory will be used.

The only mediator based system I have right now has only 32MiB of memory and runs a 1280x1024 resolution 3.9 install just fine*

*well, it isn't running right now due to a disk issue, but when it does, it runs fine.

[Karlos]

Hi,

@Karlos,

Noticed you have an AX1000...

Well, that's news to me.