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AGP Aperature setting in System BIOS???


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I have a Dell Dimension 8250 P4 2.4Ghz, 512 Megs RAM, and a new Radeon X800 XL Platinum AGP 256 Meg video card. Unfortunately, my maximum speed on my system AGP bus is 4X.

Question is about the AGP Aperature setting in my System BIOS. The default setting is 128. The options are 64, 128, and 256. With my past video card, a Radeon 9800 128 Meg card, I just left the BIOS setting at 128, but now with the additional on card memory, should I bump it up? Or, is that setting more based on your System RAM amount and you set it according to that?

Thanks for your help guys.

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I have a Dell Dimension 8250 P4 2.4Ghz, 512 Megs RAM, and a new Radeon X800 XL Platinum AGP 256 Meg video card. Unfortunately, my maximum speed on my system AGP bus is 4X.

Question is about the AGP Aperature setting in my System BIOS. The default setting is 128. The options are 64, 128, and 256. With my past video card, a Radeon 9800 128 Meg card, I just left the BIOS setting at 128, but now with the additional on card memory, should I bump it up? Or, is that setting more based on your System RAM amount and you set it according to that?

Thanks for your help guys.

The AAS is the amount of system RAM shared with the AGP card in order for it to have more memory to process textures and other visual data.

Keep in mind however that this is memory that will be used by the card and thus will not be available for multi-tasking and such. With you having only 512 of system RAM, I would probably leave it at 128 and see how things run.

I then would play with the settings on different games and see how your performance is. Just my 2-cents. :wtg:

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Thanks for the reply guys.

If I had more system RAM would I want to up the AGP Aperature setting then?

Yeah, you then bump that bad boy up to 256 and not worry about taking a hit on overall system performance. With your current system RAM though, let the card do most of the work with its dedicated 256mb.

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