7300gs 512mb?

[cyclopopcicle]

bought a evga 7300gs that was supposed to have 256 of mem but it has 512mb according to the graphics driver and 3dmark 06

didnt even realise a 512mb card was made in 7300gs form

 

[Wakinglimb]

It's using some of your main memory...

- Supports upto 512MB memory (1GB System memory required for 512MB function)

256mb is "turbocache" I think.

 

[iSam]

Your right, some cards do use system memory.

 

[Energize]

When they use system memory do they perform as if they have 512mb vram, or is it slower because the ram is further away from the gfx card?

 

[Naffa]

bought a evga 7300gs that was supposed to have 256 of mem but it has 512mb according to the graphics driver and 3dmark 06

didnt even realise a 512mb card was made in 7300gs form

what was your score? id be interessted to see how badly this performed.

 

[Wakinglimb]

When they use system memory do they perform as if they have 512mb vram, or is it slower because the ram is further away from the gfx card?

...and the memory itself is a lot slower. Of course the alertaive is the graphics card swapping texture memory within RAM without it being dedicated to the card and thus possibly even being swapped in the main swap file on HDD... it's the lesser of two evils, but still not workable for gaming imo.

 

[cyclopopcicle]

its not a gaming machine anyway so no problem there

is there a way to limit the memory it steals?

 

[iSam]

No not really, it takes it anyway. My sister had onboard graphics, which did the same thing but there was nothing we could do to stop it stealing system memory. The only thing we could do was to buy more memory to compensate.

 

[Wakinglimb]

its not a gaming machine anyway so no problem there

is there a way to limit the memory it steals?

Yes, you can do it through the drivers if its an external card or through the bios with an internal card (6100/6150 chipset) if it's taking it through turbocache.

 

[cyclopopcicle]

its an internal card pci-e
where in the drivers do i find this setting?

 

[Wakinglimb]

Right click on your desktop > properties > settings tab > advanced button > nVidia logo'd 7300GS tab > you'll see some exta info tabs on the left hand side of the panel, you'll find it in there, I don't know exactly what it's called as I don't have that card.