AGP Aperture Size...

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This is a setting that I have overlooked in the past. Recently I have been
wondering if this setting should be changed from it's normal setting of the
usually default 64mb after obtaining a more powerful Video Card.

here's my setup.

Asus A7N8X Deluxe
AMD Athlon XP 2600+ @2.08GHz
512 Dual Channel DDR400 (2x256MB)
Albatron Gigi nVidia GeForce FX5200EP 128MB

I don't do a lot of gaming, mostly application based. Some 3D Max
Rendering, PhotoShop, etc.
Would it benefit me to increase the Aperture Size to maybe 128 or 256MB??

Any suggestions or comments would be helpful.

Thanks,
Steve
 
SteveC said:
This is a setting that I have overlooked in the past. Recently I have been
wondering if this setting should be changed from it's normal setting of the
usually default 64mb after obtaining a more powerful Video Card.

here's my setup.

Asus A7N8X Deluxe
AMD Athlon XP 2600+ @2.08GHz
512 Dual Channel DDR400 (2x256MB)
Albatron Gigi nVidia GeForce FX5200EP 128MB

I don't do a lot of gaming, mostly application based. Some 3D Max
Rendering, PhotoShop, etc.
Would it benefit me to increase the Aperture Size to maybe 128 or 256MB??

Any suggestions or comments would be helpful.

Thanks,
Steve
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Why don't you try it and find out?
 
I am aren't I?? LOL

I did a google search and it only tells me what the setting does...I wanna
know if it's gonna hurt my performance or not??

Steve
 
according to an article i read on tweak3d.net, generally speaking, the
higher the aas, the better. however, benchmark testing will be
required to determine what setting works best with your system.
if you're doing a lot of 3d rendering, then yes 256mb should be good,
but again, test to determine which aas boosts your performance the
most.

hth,

monty
 
I use the OB memory amount....64 megs 64 aperture 128 megs 128 aperture..... thats my way of determining it....
 
Cross post, top post.... The world has enough rules without anger trolls
writing new rules everytime something bugs them.
I'm glad I bumped into this post because I've been trying to figure this
out myself. Most of the writing on the web on the topic seems to date back
to when 128megs of rams was considered overkill.
I'm finding how high I can set it depends on the drivers I'm using. There
also seems to be a noticable improvement in in game image quality with a
higher setting.

Good luck.

JAD said:
I use the OB memory amount....64 megs 64 aperture 128 megs 128
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aperture..... thats my way of determining it....
 
I've always been told 1/2 the amount of RAM you have. I've tried
several settings on my NF7-S (and other boards) and it made all of
zero difference ....
 
This is a setting that I have overlooked in the past. Recently I have been
wondering if this setting should be changed from it's normal setting of the
usually default 64mb after obtaining a more powerful Video Card.

here's my setup.

Asus A7N8X Deluxe
AMD Athlon XP 2600+ @2.08GHz
512 Dual Channel DDR400 (2x256MB)
Albatron Gigi nVidia GeForce FX5200EP 128MB

I don't do a lot of gaming, mostly application based. Some 3D Max
Rendering, PhotoShop, etc.
Would it benefit me to increase the Aperture Size to maybe 128 or 256MB??

Any suggestions or comments would be helpful.

Thanks,
Steve
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Just like the windows swapfile there's no specific answer as it's
dependant on hardware and usage.
http://www.cybercpu.net/howto/basic/AGP_aperture/index.asp



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I have an ATI 9100 128MB
and leave my Aperture at 64MBs, works fine, play a lots of games.
I would suggest you leave yours at 128MB.
That gives you 256MBs of graphics memory for your system to call on.

Maybe send an e-mail to Adobe and ask them what they recommend for Photoshop
use.
 
FWIW...
Graphics Aperture Size:
It's best to keep the aperture size in the 64MB-128MB range so that
the GART (Graphics Address Relocation Table) won't become too big. As
the amount of local memory on graphics cards increases and texture
compression becomes commonplace, there's less of a need for the AGP
aperture size to grow beyond 64MB.

http://www.rojakpot.com/

Cheers,
Ed
 
Tod said:
I have an ATI 9100 128MB
and leave my Aperture at 64MBs, works fine, play a lots of games.
I would suggest you leave yours at 128MB.
That gives you 256MBs of graphics memory for your system to call on.
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Ummm, it doesn't quite work like that but whatever.
 
i dont see the bitching with top posting, its easier to read...you
read the first post, then go to the next and WHAT DO YOU KNOW? the
reply is on top so you dont have to scroll all the way through what
you JUST READ to read a reply...people say it is disrespect to top
post, but then again i like to top post on those people and force
submission LMAO
 
Steve said:
i dont see the bitching with top posting, its easier to read...you
read the first post,
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Well the bitch about people top posting is: it's a new thing that came about
from MS making it the default setting in outlook and most people are too
lazy to change the default. So newbies to usenet top post. The people who
"follow the rules" and post how it's been done for over a decade bottom
post(and so it reads like a book etc, what book reads from bottom to top?)
so then you end up with threads that are unreadable.. If people would snip
stuff that doesn't apply to their coments, you wouldn't have to scroll
either.
 
Ed said:
FWIW...
Graphics Aperture Size:
It's best to keep the aperture size in the 64MB-128MB range so that
the GART (Graphics Address Relocation Table) won't become too big. As
the amount of local memory on graphics cards increases and texture
compression becomes commonplace, there's less of a need for the AGP
aperture size to grow beyond 64MB.

http://www.rojakpot.com/

Cheers,
Ed
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Correct and well stated! Very good web site for Bios info!

FRH
 
Steve Vai said:
i dont see the bitching with top posting, its easier to read...you
read the first post, then go to the next and WHAT DO YOU KNOW? the
reply is on top so you dont have to scroll all the way through what
you JUST READ to read a reply...people say it is disrespect to top
post, but then again i like to top post on those people and force
submission LMAO
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The main problem with top posting, and I don't think it's been mentioned in
the replies yet, is that a lot of users (I know, you won't believe this)
don't use a newsreader that puts threads together. In that case, these
people have to scroll to the bottom of the message to figure out what the
hell it's replying to, then scroll all the way back up to read the response.
Certainly, many more people use newsreaders that do organize posts into
threads now, but it is still customary to post in this standard way. I see
no reason at all to break tradition. It doesn't take more than a few seconds
to re-arrange the message, and you should be doing that anyway - to trim the
quoting. Not trimming quotes is even more dispicable in my book than top
posting. It's just annoying not to.



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SonOfAGun typed:

"Certainly, many more people use newsreaders that do organize posts into
threads now, but it is still customary to post in this standard way."

To hell with "customary". It's easier to top post.
Why "snip" or read the original post and/or replies over and over again ??
The "new" way is better. Get with the program !
 
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