AGP Aperture

[magouster]

To what size should the AGP memory aperture in the BIOS be set to? I read someone saying something like half of the graphics card memory. And someone else said as little as possible! So which should it be?

 

[MrCoffee]

I think as little as possible in your case...

Try both options and run 3dmark, that will be your answer.

 

[WorldIndustries]

Yeah, I never understood that either. I figured you had to set it to the amount of memory your video card had =/

 

[Elbatrop1]

In your case, a minimal setting would probably be best. The aperature size is how much of your regular RAM you dynamically use to help your vid card. Since you have a card with 512MB already, there's not much sense in tying up your RAM.

However, that RAM that you assign to the AGP slot is, as I said, dynamically used. That means that it is only used when it is needed, and remains part of normal RAM when it is not needed by the vid card.

 

[magouster]

Great stuff, thanks guys! I'll run 3DMark and see if it makes a difference, and I'll report back!

 

[magouster]

I ran 3DMark06, and I can report that the is no difference in performance between setting the AGP aperature size at 512MB or 32MB. It could be cause I have 512 MB video memory, and the system does not need to use system-memory I think! Thanks for your replies!

 

[FlashDude]

That's good to know for me as well, Thanks!! I do know that if you use onboard graphics this makes a huge difference up to the amount of video ram the IGP supports. And It will come directly off the amount of system ram available. (on alot of systems, not all)