Need advice: Mobile ATI card with 'shared' memory - EXA performance?

[Dan]

Dave Jones wrote:

>On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:05:10PM +1100, Dan wrote:
>
> > I'm on the verge of buying a Turion ( mobile Athlon 64 ) notebook. As 
> > far as I can tell, there are NO ATI cards for the Turion with dedicated 
> > RAM. The only cards worth talking about with dedicated RAM are nVidia 
> > cards. I'd prefer to use an ATI if possible.
>
>I picked up a HP dv8040us last weekend, which has a Turion, and
>an ATI card with a novel (to me at least) feature.
>The BIOS offers the option of using dedicated video ram (128MB)
>_and_ the option of also using up to an additional 256MB of system RAM.
>  
>
Excellent! I will see if I can get hold of something like this in Australia.
I'm not too crash hot on the asthetic design of HP notebooks, but you 
can't have everything ...

Thanks for the info :)

Dan