Pixelcorrection@wmconnect.com wrote:

how much video ram do those nForce, G-box, bare-bones PC's have? at under $300 for a P4 they are the hottest deal on the market.

These barbones are for AMD cpus. As the name says, you have to throw in at least a CDRom, Harddisk, CPU and Memory. Preinstalled in the Shuttle SN41G2 is onboard sound,graphics, LAN, Firewire and USB (you see, these Barbones comes all from mainboard companys like Shuttle, Asus etc.). The grafics ,featuring a dual vga and one video output (mirroring on of the 2 vgas), runs with shared memory. For intense 3d Gameplay it might suck but for video processing and GEM OpenGL it seems to be ok. I installed 512mb and gave them 128mb. Installing Windows was ok, Mandrake Linux 9.2 so far too. A bit of hassle was getting the onboard LAN to run but it can be done (you need to get the Kernel sources which are not on the downloadable Mandrake CDs, get NVidia drivers and just type 'make' and 'make install'.)

A cheaper solution is a modified XBox running Linux but this has to be investigated.

Cheers,

Malte