ATI 9200 Mobility 32Mb

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Hi everyone,
Is it possible to allocate some system ram to bump the 32Mb up to 64Mb+
is there some way of doing this and would there be any performance gain?

Cheers
DIJ
 
DIJ said:
Hi everyone,
Is it possible to allocate some system ram to bump the 32Mb up to 64Mb+
is there some way of doing this and would there be any performance gain?
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Basically this is what AGP does anyway (at least for textures, but the
frame buffer and z-buffer should fit into 32MB).

André
 
André Janz said:
Basically this is what AGP does anyway (at least for textures, but the
frame buffer and z-buffer should fit into 32MB).

André
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Thanks for the response.
I didn't think I could do anything, just thought i'd ask though.

DIJ
 
DIJ said:
Thanks for the response.
I didn't think I could do anything, just thought i'd ask though.
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You can adjust the AGP aperture size in the BIOS setup. But this doesn't
influence performance directly, you only need this when you have a lot
of high-res textures.
Actually the problem with that video solution is not only the lack of
ram but the lack of ram bandwidth. The Mobility Radeon 9000/9200 (only
difference between them is AGP 8x support which is rather useless) can
only have 128-bit access to its ram with 64MB of video memory. With 32MB
ram it only has 64-bit access which severely limits performance
(equivalent to Radeon 9200SE). See eg.
http://www1.us.dell.com/content/lea...=dhs&~f=lg&~id=gfxinspnmobility&~series=inspn
http://www.thinkpaddepot.com/productpg.asp?linkid=237394U

But nonetheless, if you choose your games carefully you will have a good
gaming performance on that notebook. (I suppose you care for gaming
because this only matters for 3D graphics.)

André
 
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