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    G1Sn - 9500M GS Question

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by umbalito, Dec 30, 2008.

  1. umbalito

    umbalito Notebook Enthusiast

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    Just a quick question -

    Had a defective 8600 and I sent it to Asus - mobo was replaced with the G1Sn, so now I've got the 9500GS.

    From what I understand this card has 512MB memory - but right now I'm showing a "Shared System Memory" of +767 MB. So I'm showing about 1264 MB of memory.

    Now my question is - that means I'm sharing that with my RAM right?
    So since I've got the stock 2 GB RAM in there, I'm sharing ~767MB of that with the video card? Is that right?

    If so, how do I disable this? Isn't it better to just work with the 512MB of the GPU and keep the RAM for other stuff?

    I don't game that much - but I'm just thinking I might get better performance with say GTAIV at lower res with more RAM.

    ??

    Cheers, and thanks.
     
    umbalito, Dec 30, 2008
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  2. adyingwren

    adyingwren Notebook Evangelist

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    Don't worry. It's all marketing. The 9500m GS can't actually address more than 256 MB of vram. Its not going to eat into your system's ram. Speaking of which, consider upgrading to 4 GB
     
    adyingwren, Dec 30, 2008
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