P4C800E-D BIOS Graphics Aperature Size Setting Q

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All,

First build...

Say I have an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB == what would I pick here?

4/8/16/32/64/128/256 ??

Just want to make sure before I fry something...

Thanks!

JohnH
 
All,

First build...

Say I have an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB == what would I pick here?

4/8/16/32/64/128/256 ??

Just want to make sure before I fry something...

Thanks!

JohnH
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half your system ram.
If you have 512 meg or more ram
set it to 256.
 
It depends on how much system RAM you have, I believe. When in doubt, I
would use the 128; it's the most commonly selected.
 
According to "The Definitive BIOS Guide, found here:
http://www.rojakpot.com/
It says, in part:
Please note that the AGP aperture is merely address space, not actual
physical memory in use. Although it is very common to hear people
recommending that the AGP aperture size should be half the size of
system memory, that is wrong!
It is recommended that you keep the AGP aperture around 64MB to 128MB in
size, even if your graphics card has a lot of onboard memory. This
allows flexibility in the event that you actually need extra memory for
texture storage. It will also keep the GART (Graphics Address Relocation
Table) within a reasonable size.
 
Big Toe said:
half your system ram.
If you have 512 meg or more ram
set it to 256.
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But there is no 512 aperture setting on my machine!!!

I have found that it doesn't really make any diff - pick 64, 126, 256. They
are all the same.
 
DaveW said:
It depends on how much system RAM you have, I believe. When in doubt, I
would use the 128; it's the most commonly selected.
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How do you know that? Have you taken a poll?
 
I had the same question the other day on a newly built machine. I was
lucky and actually got through to ASUS tech support. The agent told me
to set it at 1/4 of my system RAM. I have 1Gb so I set it to 256. That
was direct from ASUS. Then again, I know tech support people aren't
always 100% right.
 
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