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Scorchedbee =GCHQ=
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Post subject: gpu using system ram?  Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:15 pm |
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my 7900gt is using 256 of system ram. i have 2 gb, how can i tell my card to not use any system ram? its not on my bios (asus sli-premium).
will it make any difference in performance?
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Shrek
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 11:44 am |
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back in the days of agp, there was a setting called agp or memory apperture (cant remember exactl)
and that set the about of sys mem your card could use.
i havent seen the equivlant in any pci-e board i have had (im on my 3rd or 4th atm)
so im guessing you cant. why would you want to do that tho? the card will only do it under extreme conditions (hard core gaming @ high textures) and it will only store info that it doesnt need regularly (bit like a page file for the gcard)
removing it or reducing it a long way will slow your system down much more that the slight reduction in ram.
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Scorchedbee =GCHQ=
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 1:04 am |
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no, but according to the display properties advanced tab, its using 256mb of system ram, it shouldent be doing so, should it?
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:00 pm |
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you sure you are not looking at card ram? 
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Scorchedbee =GCHQ=
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 1:26 am |
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Mike=GCHQ=
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 2:23 am |
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i have same gpu as u, u have them in sli though dont u...
i dont get any of those bottom details past bios information
are u on vista there or xp?
also why dont u have a tab for your GPU .. ? (from your drivers)
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Scorchedbee =GCHQ=
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:24 pm |
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its not sli matey, its vista, and im using the 100.65 vista drivers.
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:17 pm |
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My 8800 does the same thing in vista, seems to grab itself about 400MB of RAM.
I am completely unimpressed with Vista RAM management. Was looking at the resource monitor last night and the amount of paging going on was rediculous for processes that were in memory even though i had a gig free.
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[QBS]Dr.Strangelove
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 2:17 am |
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aaaaaah vista, thats the prob, even in desktop mode your card is working its tiny nuts off 
i suppose if you turn of all that fancy vista stuff, it might be ok, but i doubt it
XP FTW  
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