Smart move, a motherboard/500mhz K-6 probably won't get there regardles of video setup. Most times latency resides with the MB/video combo. If the video is on the MB then a cheap video card can potentially fix it. But somethimes it's an inefficient bios that has too much code in the interrupt handling. SMI is particularly problematic becuse it's a non maskable interrupt and has to execute bios code.
Phil, Still too many interests, too many projects, and not enough time!!!!!!!!
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