AGP Aperture Size comparison

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  1. Asuka

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    Asuka, Apr 10, 2003
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    i run mine at 128
     
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    Interesting - with a 32Mb RAM card, the 3DMark2001 test "sweet spot" seems to be 128 - so with 128Mb on the card, it doesn't need to rely on using any ssytem memory for additional texture storage.

    Surprised it held up so well at 16Mb - going below 32 is usually said to disable some AGP features.

    Now here's a paradox for you - my motherboard supports a maximum of 768Mb RAM, but offers AGP aperture up to 2 Gb - when the usual recommendation is often half the system ram.
     
    Matth, Apr 11, 2003
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  4. dannyai

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    i have it at 128, and its the fastest out of all of them, unreal was like 20% faster when i set it to 128 and i've kept it at that ever since
     
    dannyai, May 1, 2003
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    nice.. but even if you get a high score you wont want a high arpeture size unless you have alot of ram. personally i prefer non-stuttering smoothness over high scores
     
    ErrorS, May 1, 2003
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    I have not noticed any difference when I set it to one or the other.:hmm:
     
    ND_BiTE_ME, May 1, 2003
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    Set to 128 here. Gets crazy in games at 256.
     
    BadReligionPR, May 1, 2003
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    Set to 128 here too.
     
    cykario, May 1, 2003
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    I have mine set at 128 mg.

    If i set it to 64, then things get screwy in NFS:HP2 (texture misplacement)
     
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    thanks for this, I have a 4400 with 128mb and 1gig ddr333 ram I've tried 64 and 128 but have never known which to choose for best results.
     
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    mines wierd.
    i set it to something (128 or 256)

    and 3dmark keeps saying i still dont have any more than 56mb of additional texture memory (not counting the 32mb of video card ram)

    So i can set something and it doesnt do squat....
     
    SQUACHY, May 2, 2003
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    you are supposed to set it to 2x your on board memory
     
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    That was when boards didn't have 128MB of onboard memory.
     
    BadReligionPR, May 2, 2003
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    I run mine at 128 anything less slows me down
     
    OmegaRED, May 6, 2003
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    No matter change that option to me. I run same tests with
    Radeon 8500le 64Mt
    512Mt sdram

    3dmarks varied less than 10marks.

    No word about sluttering or so.
     
    JTSF, May 9, 2003
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    Matrox Parhelia users get a major speed boost with the Aperture set to 256 :)
     
    UberLord, May 9, 2003
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    really? what kind of boosts?
     
    HardwareHeaven, May 9, 2003
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    About 10-30% speed boost in the SPECPERF tests.
    I can personally vouch for 5-15% speed boost running UT2003 :)
     
    UberLord, May 9, 2003
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