VX430 Motherboards & PCI Video Cards, Thanks for advice

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From: Andrew Mc.Ghee
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 00:00

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Thanks Dimitri and Daniel for your feedback, I'm just returning this post to
the newsgroup in case anyone else was interested in this thread.

The low down was that the VX chipset is a cheaper, or lower version of the
HX430 chipset. From the advice recommended by
http://www.tdl.com/~netex/mb/mb.html 
the HX430 chipset will give better performance, but at a higher cost.
An interesting point made was that the VX430 chipset supported shared memory
between the Video card and main memory - very versatile as you can select the
amount of video ram required from your main memory on-the-fly, but apparently
this can slow down the system speed, and so was advised against. Both the HX
and VX chipsets appear to support USB. (Although some early versions of the HX
chipset apparently didn't?)

Andrew Mc.Ghee
Mechanical Engineering
University of Queensland

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