Good morning Mr. Trans am,

You can call me uncle just don't call me late for dinner!

For me, in pcm05 seems like 8x vga only impacts graphics memory and even then only at high cpu clocks and with 6970, ymmv though.

For pcm05, don't forget to limit your xpstartup to under 220. Many different ways to do this, lately I have been using iometer through a .bat. Use the 2004 version of iometer so you can adjust and save your config file, set the test to run for 20-25s, use 32MB seq read, 1 per worker and add/remove workers to get just below 220.