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bios, aperture size
Name: mike Date: August 20, 2002 at 02:00:37 Pacific
Comment:
i am doing as much research as i can before i attemt to upgrade my graphics card this weekend. i was looking around in bios to see what options where offered on turning off my graphics card and came across this phrase...agp aperture size 64 mb. now, under settings,control panel,display,advanced it says - graphics processor:nvidia vanta. bus type:agp. on board mem:8mb. i am assuming that i only have an 8mb graphics card and that aperture size must be refering to something that is related to the graphics card.?
Name: Ron Watts Date: August 20, 2002 at 18:11:28 Pacific
Reply:
Set the aperature to aproxamintly 1/4 of your system RAM Not your graphics card. This is the amount of RAM the card can use from the system. The higher you set it the better the graphics look but the slower your system performs
Summary: 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 t...
Summary: AGP aperture size allows you to tell the system how much video RAM you have on your card, just as you tell the system in BIOS whether to use 4X/8X settings, etc. It doesn't have anything to do with s...
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