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    x1400 how much VRAM

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Lite, Oct 17, 2007.

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    The Ati X1400 is supposed to be a card wich has 128Mb and can use another 128Mb from system memory. I never saw it mentioned to be able to reach 512Mb.
     
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    Use GPU-Z! http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

    It also shows the memory type, bandwidth etc. My x1400 can also reach 512 MB from the system memory. Can you post in the GPU-Z screen you get?
     
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    also where is the option to change the amount of shared memory it nicks , i cant find it anywhere but people say it exists.. (PS) its 64 bit because its the dell version but the differance in the two isnt substantial because this isnt a high end card and cant utilise the full 128 bit properly... My overclocking makes up for it and more...
     
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    Okay I will post it in the evening (Now I'm on battery so the card is automatically underclocked.) But mine is 450/337 by the clocks and also 64 bit. I don't think there is any way to change it to 128 by disabling Hypermemory:

    You can read that "This PCI Express auxiliary memory channel is effectively a 64-bit memory channel with access to
    system memory. This means that a VPU equipped with a 64-bit local graphics memory bus and a PCI
    Express auxiliary memory channel has an effective 128-bit memory bus."
    This means that the memory bus is only 64 bit, and when working paralelly with the central memory, it becomes "an effective 128 bit.", but it doesn't make much difference. Also I think the memory bus would make much difference, since I experienced that in some games on 1280×1024 I got 6 fps both on high and medium settings, since the card could compute it, but the memory was too slow for the objects and buffers.
    Can you also post 3DMark03 and 3DMark06 points? (mine 2987 in 3DMark03with original driver, 3300 with Catalyst 7.9, 1187 in 3DMark06 with original drivers.)
     
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    Okay,I got it: [​IMG]
     
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    cool , thanks .3d mark 03 i manadges to squeese 4414 i used omega drivers as you can see with slight overclocking , on deult settings i got around 3500 on omega drivers , on standard drivers i got 2721
     
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    I saw that "slight" :D overclock. I also tried Omega drivers but the original driver was enough for me, so I use them.