Onboard Graphics Card?

[Shiinji]

I know onboard isn't good so I'm going to get a new graphics card soon but...when I bought my PC it said I had 256MB onboard graphics card which would be Geforce 6150SE nForce 430 but when I look the card up it says 128MB. How do I find out how much memory I actually have?

 

[Alvin.C]

Hello,

Onboard graphics usually uses a Unified Memory Architecture Design (Shared Memory Architecture), where a porton of system memory is allocated as graphics memory.

Most onboard graphics which share system memory usually allow you to specify the amount of RAM allocated in the BIOS settings.

 

[Shiinji]

Thanks, I found it.

 

[peterhuang913]

The onboard steals the memory from the RAM.

 

[veg1992]

depends on the situation, it'll steal upto 256mb depending on how much graphics power needed