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My main question is how is the on board GFX? It's an ATI Radeon HD 3300 Graphics 128MB DDR3 SidePort memory.
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The 3300 is, I believe, the second fastest integrated graphics chip that AMD makes - if you're not planning intense gaming with it, I think you'll be fine; another point to be made is that gamers chase frame-rates that are well beyond the accuity of the human visual 'hardware' - roughly 30 fps...
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What does sideport memory mean?
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The 'sideport' memory is a 128M 'chunk' of DDR3 memory soldered onto the board - I'm not positive, but I believe it's under the northbridge cooler assembly. This is the equivalent of the memory found on a graphics card - it's 'dedicated' to the GPU. In the BIOS, under "Advanced BIOS Features", there is a setting, "Internal Graphics Mode" that allows you to pick: 'Disabled', to disable the onboard graphics controller; 'UMA', which allocates memory for the onboard graphics controller from your system memory; 'SidePort', which uses the on-board, dedicated SidePort memory for the onboard graphics controller; and 'UMA+SidePort', which allocates memory for the onboard graphics controller from the main system memory, as well as using the SidePort memory. The next setting, "UMA Frame Buffer Size", determines the total amount of main system memory allocated solely for the onboard graphics controller: 128MB, 256MB, or 512MB, when you have 'UMA' or 'UMA+SidePort' selected above...