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Title: AH and AGP memory?
Post by: Westy on January 03, 2001, 01:31:00 PM

 I've been reading up some to try and tweak all I can from my system. Reading just enough to be able to ask dumb questions  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)  One question I have is to ask if AH utilises AGP memory. I thought about increasing my AGP aperture from 64mb to 128mb (256PC100/133 sdram and Viper V770 Ultra 32mb) but not sure if that wil get me anything.

 Thanks in advance for any replies!

   -Westy

Title: AH and AGP memory?
Post by: Skuzzy on January 03, 2001, 04:39:00 PM

Actually Westy, it is the video card drivers that make use of this memory.

Rule of thumb is; Set the AGP aperature size to the amount of memory you have on your video card, if you have enough ram.

The aperature is the amount of system ram that will be used by the video driver for agp bus transfers.  Setting ti larger than the amount of video ram is a waste of memory.  Although if the video drivers are written correctly, they should never use more system ram than the card has.

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Title: AH and AGP memory?
Post by: SKurj on January 03, 2001, 09:09:00 PM

Fastest settings I've seen for AGP v3 cards is to set the aperture to 256mb

tho i never noticed a difference at lower values

AKskurj

Title: AH and AGP memory?
Post by: Westy on January 04, 2001, 10:17:00 AM

 Thanks guys!!!  Was hoping it might help but at least I know now more about it.

 -Westy