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phattsao

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June 7th, 2004 19:00

Video settings in BIOS question/problem

Hey, I just got a Radeon 9800 pro video card that has 128mb of memory.  However, in my bios (the latest one for a Dell 4100, I believe A11) the "agp aperture size" only goes up to 64mb.  Is this limiting my 128mb card to only using 64mb of it's memory?  And if so, is there a way to fix this?  Thanks. 
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    dan39

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    Posted June 7th, 2004 22:00

    no, aperture size is the amount of system memory that it uses. 64mb is fine. dont worry about it. a larger concern should be the psu you have in your system, might not be enough to run the card effectively.
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    phattsao

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    Posted June 8th, 2004 02:00

    Thats what they tell me.  I'll max out the ram and hope for the best till I can get a new mobo/processor/ram/psu etc.
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    dan39

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    Posted June 8th, 2004 02:00

    nothing you can really do about that, p III 1ghz is the fastest i believe and certainly not worth upgrading to. only a  new system can change that.

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    phattsao

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    Posted June 8th, 2004 02:00

    Thanks for the response.  I already learned about Dell's ridiculous propeitary PSU the hard way, but rather than pay them I got one from PC Power and Cooling and it works great.  The real problem now is that my processor (933 P3) just isn't up to task on new games.

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