Hi all, resurrecting an old thread for my own evil purposes ;-) I am looking to buy a Shuttle SN41G2 for use in an audio installation at European Media Arts Festival this month. Everything looks cool, except that VGA Shared Memory. As a devout follower of RME, I read everything on their site about hardware recommendations, and one of the big warnings is this Shared Graphics Memory. This means that the graphics card uses normal RAM for its graphics-handling. The Shuttle says it comes with a Geforce4 MX, and that it "features" 128 Mb of shared memory. This sounds to me more like 128 Mb that gets taken away from audio processing!! Can anybody tell me if they have run into audio dropout problems with this machine, and most importantly while using an add-on soundcard. I will be using a Delta 66 in this machine. I know that it gets glitches with PD + ALSA with default settings on the built-in Realtek card, but I won't be using that anyway.... Other problem I know of is that new kernel modules are needed for the built-in NIC ethernet card, but I can handle that. robcanning wrote: To answer Rob's question, look for the thread on pd list called "nForce chipset". It was generally concluded that using the 5.1 outputs calls on *extremely* proprietary Dolby [en/de]coding. best, Derek -- derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl ---Oblique Strategy # 50: "Distort time"