Graphics Aperture Size

[Bullman]

I installed a New Graphics card into my Dell Dimension 4500 about 3

months ago. Everything is working fine, but while I was looking around

in the Bios, I noticed that the Graphics Aperture Size is set to

[64MB]. The Graphics card is a Nvidia G-force 4 TI4800 SE 128DDR made

by Leadtek. I was wondering if the Aperture Size should be set to

[128MB] to match up with the card for optimum performance, or does this

have anything to do with setting up the Card for use? The Aperture size

option has numbers ranging from [4MB] up to [256MB].

[iisbob]

The aperture size is a hold over from the early days of AGP when video cards had < 16 MB's, the aperture was a way for the system memory to augmentate the video memory-it alowed portions of your system memory to assist the graphics card in processing graphics.

It's been pretty much useless since the first Geforce's/Raedeon's premiered; they have more than enough GPU & onboard memory to handle any graphic application out there, so a setting of 64 MB's is fine, in fact over the years i've never seen where anything larger than that really gave much improvement-and with the soon advent of PCI xpress-the AGP port will be a thing of the past-so will the aperture size settings.

[Bullman]

Everything is working fine with the new card, so I won't even bother messing with that setting. Thanks for the Reply iisbob. I'm kind of a newbie to computers, but I LOVE working on these things. It is turning out to be my new hobbie. Thanks again!