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    V6j Memory Question

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by CalebSchmerge, Apr 1, 2006.

  1. CalebSchmerge

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    I noticed this the other day and I was curious if anyone could explain it...

    My V6j says that the graphics card has 512 MB of memory. I thought it was a 128 MB card with hyper memory. Is it really a 256 MB card with hyper memory? The attached picture shows what I am talking about. Thanks.
     

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    Nvidia uses "turbo cache" .. same thing........ You can see up to 512mb if you put 2gb of system memory in... I think it'll show 256mb with the stock 1gb installed.

    ... but it's a 128mb of dedicated vram... period.
     
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    Yeah, the machine is completely stock, so I don't know why it shows the 512 MBs. Its using 649 MBs of the 1 GB available, so maybe its just showing the 512 because there is no need for the system resources. Thanks for confirming this though.
     
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    That's right actually looking at one I've got here 512mb should show under the stock 1gb... That's close to a 1/3 of the system memory being pulled for possible video use. ATI does it a bit differently, but Nvidia's method should be about the same... that memory is used by the system first and only really pulled for video as it needs it....... so if you have close to no pull from the video card, and a lot for system ram, you're not limiting your system to only 640mb..... or at least it shouldn't..... unless Nvidia has their's set up to hold it no matter what...
     
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    You have 1gb system ram and it shows 512mb for vram?

    I guess Nvidia does it a lot differently.

    I have 1gb of system ram and my x700 128mb is showing 256mb of vram.

    I guess Nvidia just takes more system ram, which shouldn't be a problem and maybe is a good thing since they're being more aggressive?

    Kinda like setting an AGP system's AGP aperture to 256 when having a gig of system ram when having a 128mb videocard.
     
    Shampoo, Apr 2, 2006
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