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PCI-E Cards with hypermemory???

parkie

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I want to get a run of the mill PCI-E card for my second puter, I won't be playing games or anything of that nature in fact I only use it for encoding and music making. My question is: do these hypermemory cards use system memory automatically or is it something you can switch off? I've been looking at these budget PCI-E cards but I don't want a card thats going to use more system memory than a normal card, should I steer clear of these turbo cache/hypermemory cards and get something different? It has to be silent though which is why I'm looking at these cheaper cards. I've seen a x300SE with 128/256, does that mean it has 128 on board but can use up to 256 including system memory? Does the hypermemory thing only kick in when a application needs it? Would it happen if I was using a music sequencer or sampler?

hope you understand what I mean

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I don't know if it only kicks in once you're doing something that's going to use it, but I know that turbocache cards perform a great deal worse than cards with their own dedicted memory.

Sorry I can't answer your main question :p
 
Zefan said:
I don't know if it only kicks in once you're doing something that's going to use it, but I know that turbocache cards perform a great deal worse than cards with their own dedicted memory.

Sorry I can't answer your main question :p
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As I only need 2D, performance isn't an issue, it's the amount of system RAM used whilst using my music software that I'm concerned about. I don't want my graphics card eating into my already stretched resources!!

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I would recommend getting a card with dedicated onboard memory myself, as you never can be careful these days, and with the bidget side of cards you could pick up a very cheap one that would have passive cooling, for example Sapphire ATI Radeon X1300 256MB DDR2 AVIVO TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-108-SP) - £45.77

Just a few pounds more than the other "Hyper Memory" but has its own onboard with passive cooling.

To answer your question, the Hyper Memory does use system ram so would not be a wise idea to say the least.
 
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