Shared RAM

[Pedro Fernandes Macedo]

David Niemi wrote:

>Just to intrude another question along similar lines: what about for
>those systems with an AGP or PCI(-X) card that have their own RAM and
>there is also a similar amount of system RAM alocated to AGP/PCI
>graphics called "AGP Aperature Size" or similar in the motherboard's
>BIOS.
>
>Why is there a similar amount of system RAM allocated?  
>
>Dave
>  
>
AFAIK , the AGP aperture size would be some kind of cache on the main 
memory of the video card's memory,
but I never saw anything stating exactly the meaning of such setting.. 
And all pages that I saw regarding the subject
often give different opinions on the value that should be set...

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Pedro Macedo