Vista - AGP setting

I have an ASUS sk8v motherboard with an Radeon X1650 video card installed.In
my motherboards bios there is a AGP setting that goes up to 256mb,my video
card has 512mb of memory.My Question is at what setting should I have it on?

Willie

512 meg of RAM is insufficient - without taking "any" away for video.

Add another 1 gig of RAM and then take the maximum for your video card. This
will leave you with about 1.25 gig of RAM for the operating system - a much
more realistic amount.

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"Willie" <dvdmd@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have an ASUS sk8v motherboard with an Radeon X1650 video card
>installed.In my motherboards bios there is a AGP setting that goes up to
>256mb,my video card has 512mb of memory.My Question is at what setting
>should I have it on?
>
> Willie

ok willie this is a setting in the bios and it controlls the AGP(accelerated
Graphics Port) apperature. this is the amount of system ram the agp card can
have acces to. now heres the catch 22, it all depends on how much ram you
have in your system, so if you have allot, set it to 256 because the card
will have direct access to 256 MB of ram but it will take away from your
system. its a tightrope act balancing system proformance and graphics
subsystem proformance.

"Willie" wrote:

> I have an ASUS sk8v motherboard with an Radeon X1650 video card installed.In
> my motherboards bios there is a AGP setting that goes up to 256mb,my video
> card has 512mb of memory.My Question is at what setting should I have it on?
>
> Willie
>
>