AGP aperature setting

[Freshmixture 0]

Hello mates,

First off, my tower specs are:

Dell Dimension 8200

Windows XP

P4 2.0g--400 FSB

128mb Nvidia 6800 AGP 4x video card

768 mb RDRAM memory (will be 1.5gb---memory is in route)

19' LCD widescreen monitor with a native resolution set at 1440x900 @60hz

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I was wondering what should I set my AGP aperature at. Should it be at 128mb or 256mb?

I believe I need only set it to 128mb to increase my vid card AVAILABLE system memory to cover 256mb total....right?

I believe I read that anything over a 256mb "onboard" memory vid card was useless anyway.

Thank you all in advance,

Fresh

Edited April 18, 2006 by Freshmixture

[CR6 0]

>I was wondering what should I set my AGP aperature at. Should it be at 128mb or 256mb?

Depends on how much system memory you have. If you get 1.5GB, then set it at 256.

>I believe I need only set it to 128mb to increase my vid card AVAILABLE system memory to cover 256mb total....right?

No, using system memory for your video card does not give you similar performance to onboard video memory, so you can't compare this. Best to have the physical memory right on your video card.

(This is different in consoles where the cpu and gpu share memory)

>I believe I read that anything over a 256mb "onboard" memory vid card was useless anyway.

Maybe 2 years ago, but since Doom 3, gamers that want to run things at the high-end can benefit from 512MB video RAM.

Don't get me wrong - 256MB is fine for most gamers, but it's almost like the minimum "recommended spec" these days for new games.