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Malakai
12-19-01, 05:24 AM
what does "agp aperture size" mean in the bios(mines set to 64 meg)?
Placid
12-19-01, 01:29 PM
That setting will allow a agp video card to use the amount of system memory the setting is at.
Wa11y
12-19-01, 01:48 PM
Originally posted by Placid
That setting will allow a agp video card to use the amount of system memory the setting is at.

System memory as in not video memory? As in if I have 1GB of system RAM, I can set my AGP aperature at 512MB (theoretically), and have an extra 512MB of video memory?
RainMaQer
12-19-01, 02:01 PM
Theoretically... yes... but the highest agp aperture size I've seen is 256Mb... I could be wrong though:)
Placid
12-19-01, 02:05 PM
It's similar to the way a operating system can use the hard drive as virtual memory when it runs out of conventional memory.
Malakai
12-19-01, 03:42 PM
thanx guys
Extermn8rX
12-19-01, 05:31 PM
Well, i have 64mb of memory on my vid card, would i get any performance boost for setting the aperature higher?
RainMaQer
12-19-01, 05:37 PM
best thing to do is benchmark each setting until you find a sweet spot... mine is 128... the difference is marginal at 256... toward the negative really.
CrackedSKull
12-19-01, 05:46 PM
Even if you set it to 256mb you will never use that much video memory unless your doing hardcore multimedia(like video editing, 3d animation, etc.)
Wa11y
12-20-01, 08:13 AM
Well crap! All this time I've been setting my AGP aperature to match the amount of video ram I have! I'll have to look into that and play with the settings. Thanks for the info y'all!

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