AGP Aperture Size?

[sh33p]

Just a quick question here about a bios setting I noticed when I was looking around in my bios...

What does AGP aperature refer too? What is the best setting for this? Currently it is set to 128 megs...
Heres my setup:
Athlon 1.33 T-bird (266fsb)
256 DDR Ram
Gigabyte GA-7VTX mobo
Hercules Prophet 4500 64 meg (Kyro2)
SB Live Value...
I don't know if any of this or anything else would affect this setting?
Any help would be greatly appreciated

sh33p

 

[ddragon]

It sets the maximum amount of memory that your video card can use for swapping out textures from its own memory to RAM.

As far as I know,it doesn't make any sense to set this to more than 64 MB. With 128 of RAM,it may be questionable whether to set 32 or 64 MB,but with 256 MB of RAM,I would set 64 MB without hesitation.I have it set this way with my 256 MB of RAM but frankly,I haven't experimented with the different settings.

 

[swanky]

64 is a nice default value for 128MB RAM or more. otherwise it's usually best to set it to half the amount of physical RAM (64MB RAM = aperture set to 32).

swanky

 

[Mem]

The old rule is set it to half your total ram,however even with 256mb of total ram you don`t really need more then 64mb Aperture size,that`s what I use infact I`ve tried both 128mb and 64mb and there is no difference.

 

[m2super]

try it at 64 run some benchmarks then try 128 and see which gives you better performance!