4 Gig memory. Vista doesn't think so

yantorsen · 9 Dec 2007 at 00:07

lsg1r said:
my 6150 on my board can take upto 512meg in windows, bios its only 128meg, the driver is boosting it.

probly because it uses system memory for the graphics.

lsg1r · 9 Dec 2007 at 16:23

yantorsen said:
probly because it uses system memory for the graphics.

which most integrated (ie on the motherboard) graphics cards usually do anyways :rolleyes:

yantorsen · 9 Dec 2007 at 18:03

lsg1r said:
which most integrated (ie on the motherboard) graphics cards usually do anyways

they usaully have a combination of ther own dedicated memory and system memorey.

lsg1r · 9 Dec 2007 at 19:37

yantorsen said:
they usaully have a combination of ther own dedicated memory and system memorey.

news to me, link please, I have not seen a desktop motherboard with dedicated memory for the gpu, all the ones I've seen (of nvidia/ati) use the ram, they can have an amount allocated to them by the bios but its still from the ram.

Turbocache (and the ati version) graphics cards (ie pci-e 6200 etc) access the ram on the motherboard while also having a small amount of dedicated ram too.