Arperture size in BIOS setting

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Hi, what would be the correct setting for this using an ATI All in Wonder
X800XT 256MB card? My BIOS is selectable from 32M to 512M. Thanks for any
info.
 
Anonymoose said:
Hi, what would be the correct setting for this using an ATI All in Wonder
X800XT 256MB card? My BIOS is selectable from 32M to 512M. Thanks for any
info.
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If you're a gamer, or work with 3D modeling apps set it to
256MB. If not, 64MB is fine.
 
Cuzman said:
Peter wrote:

" If you're a gamer, or work with 3D modeling apps set it to 256MB. If
not, 64MB is fine. "


Generally, that is not the advice you see given across the internet.
http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/vidcard/43
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Ah, the internet, yes, the modern-day equivalent of "well, this bloke down
the pub said...".

The thing is, there's such a huge variety of hardware and software out there
now that the number of combinations make it all but impossible to give
general advice that holds true for everyone. What bothers me though is the
unwillingness of people to experiment themselves. Instead of actually trying
things out they'll post to usenet and expect and answer immediately.
Seriously - how long does it take to test an aperture size in the BIOS? Even
if you tried one value a day until it failed? Of course if you're trying to
diagnose something that's caused by a combination of factors - then it
becomes tricky.
 
What bothers me though is the unwillingness of people to experiment
themselves. Instead of actually trying things out they'll post to usenet
and expect and answer immediately. Seriously - how long does it take to
test an aperture size in the BIOS? Even if you tried one value a day until
it failed? Of course if you're trying to diagnose something that's caused
by a combination of factors - then it becomes tricky.

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/mel/

np: silence
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Well, in all actuality I have tried every setting about one per every 3 days
and I haven't noticed a difference except for 512M. While on 512 the games I
play will crash either back to the desktop with no error or the VPU recover
would kick in. Other than that everything seems the same on all other
settings which is why I turned to the groups for advice. And incase you
haven't noticed, I was very patient for the answer. Thanks everyone else who
provided valid opinions.
 
Anonymoose said:
Hi, what would be the correct setting for this using an ATI All in Wonder
X800XT 256MB card? My BIOS is selectable from 32M to 512M. Thanks for any
info.
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64 or 128, in most cases 64 is adequate
 
Incidentally, Anonymoose, it might be a good idea to disable the VPU
Recover: a lot of people have found that crashes it 'saves' or even
doesn't save your system from simply don't occur with it off. YMMV

Patrick

<[email protected]> - take five to email me...
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Is the vpu recover a part of an ati plan to detect any bug's on pc
video gaming. i would say to let is enable that way ati can trouble
shoot effectively new game error on a varety of ati product.
Ie: the driver 5.8 to 5.9 didn't have take mush time, in result a lot
of bugs have been fixed.
 
Well, in all actuality I have tried every setting about one per every 3 days
and I haven't noticed a difference except for 512M. While on 512 the games I
play will crash either back to the desktop with no error or the VPU recover
would kick in. Other than that everything seems the same on all other
settings which is why I turned to the groups for advice. And incase you
haven't noticed, I was very patient for the answer. Thanks everyone else who
provided valid opinions.
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Incidentally, Anonymoose, it might be a good idea to disable the VPU
Recover: a lot of people have found that crashes it 'saves' or even
doesn't save your system from simply don't occur with it off. YMMV

Patrick

<[email protected]> - take five to email me...
 
Gordon said:
64 or 128, in most cases 64 is adequate
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8 would be fine, no games use system memory to store textures,
modern video cards do not use system memory like it was planned for AGP
to do. Very few did, with the i740 chipset way back in 98 being one of
the few. That is why there is such huge buffers on the card. The newer
nVidia 6200 do use turbo cache and I am not sure how this affects
aperture size, but that is not the question here anyway.
 
farmuse said:
8 would be fine,
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At least on some motherboard implementations, anything less
than 32 will disable AGP speeds altogether. Most boards these
days don't even offer an option for less than 32MB.
 
ha ha oh well, I have been using a lot of older motherboards lately,
but dang you are right, my NF7-S goes down to 32 and that is it.
aperture is bs, makes no difference.
 
farmuse said:
ha ha oh well, I have been using a lot of older motherboards lately,
but dang you are right, my NF7-S goes down to 32 and that is it.
aperture is bs, makes no difference.
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Then u haven't played BF2 with r9600pro. Changing aperture from 128 to
256 made a difference, at least here.
 
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