Graphics apature size

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  1. Pie_uk

    Pie_uk British beef, in Britain

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    right i have a 256mb gfx card how do i know what the apature size is set to, i cant find it within my bios, i heard it shoulw be 256mb... and also i have heard it should be half of the mem on your gfx card?

    is there any performance gain#? cheers
     
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  2. hitman012

    hitman012 Minimodder

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    PCI-E cards have a built-in address remapping table, so there is no set aperture as such.
     
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  3. Nottheking

    Nottheking What's a Dremel?

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    As Hitman said, the memory aperture size only applies to AGP video cards. It does not apply to video cards on the general PCI bus, which includes PCI-express video cards like the GeForce 7800GT you have.
     
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  4. Zach

    Zach What's a Dremel?

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    in agp i always set mine to double the amound on my card is that right?
     
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