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Aperture size
Name: Mechruler Date: January 6, 2005 at 20:14:36 Pacific OS: XP PRO CPU/Ram: 2600+/1024mb
Comment:
I have an EVGA Geforce6800 128mb. What should i set the Aperture size in the bios to. I have it at 256mb with no problems i know of. Also what is Aperture size. I figure it has something to do with the video card. Thanks
Name: Dave02 Date: January 6, 2005 at 20:31:02 Pacific
Reply:
The AGP aperture setting specifies to the north bridge how much of a PC's system memory is addressable by an AGP video card for textures after the video card has used all of its video memory. In that case, if you have 128Mb video card and your game textures never exceeds 128MB then you will never even use the AGP aperture.
With a gig or more of System RAM setting the Apereature size to 256 will not degrade your systems performance. If you had say. 512 meg of RAM. I wouldn'r go higher than 128 Aperature size. With 256mb of Systme RAM I would set it higher than 64. It basically reserves that amount of system RAM for the AGP's use, and the system can't touch it. That's why it's important to consider how much System RAM you have when setting the Aperature size. You don't want to hurt system performance.
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