On 10/5/2014 1:58 AM, ken wrote: > Perhaps you're intimately familiar with each and every video card > manufactured since the early '80s except for the ones I bought with my > machines, because I've always insisted on video cards with static RAM. > Or perhaps your understanding of static RAM is different from what I'm > talking about. I'm using the industry standard definitions of dynamic RAM vs static RAM... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_random-access_memory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_random-access_memory what graphics card made since the the days of the original PC Monochrome Adapter (text only) uses static ram? ALL ATI/AMD, Nvidia, and Intel graphics systems since the mid 90s use various flavors of SDRAM (the S in SDRAM stands for Synchronous, not STATIC) -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast