Hello Chaps! How would I go about squeezing the most from my onboard (on the motherboard) ATI II+ DVD (2mb) graphics card ? The cheapest and easiest options would be advisable .... Tanks in advance. %00

Not much you can do...look in the BIOS to see if you can allocate more than 2mb of RAM for your onboard video. If not, you'd be better off getting a separate card BTW, did you look into the RAM cacheability of your chipset? I still say you're killing your system with too mcuh RAM...64mb should be the max! http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/applnots/memory.htm

I'd never heard of the 64 mb memory limit before now and I read your link. It seems thoug, that he probably has a better mb and chipset than those listed with that limit. The fx had a 4000 mb limit and he's likely using an fx or better since his cpu is at the very top of the pentium line. In my experience, especially with old pentiums, with memory more=better. And as for the original question I'd go buy a better board. Decent new radeons are cheap or look for an older used card from ebay or a repair shop if yer really on a budget.