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How much RAM to feed trinity

djshortsleeve

djshortsleeve

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Just got my A8-5600k based HTPC up and running. By default, the ASRock Extreme4-M is feeding it 512 MB. I figure at least another 1/2 gig, but I have 8 GB of 2133 RAM, so I can easily afford to feed it 2 GB.

Anyone have personal experience?
 
I've got 8GBs and the the jump from sharing 512MBs to 1GB was transformative. I eventually set it to 2GBs but can't say that I've seen much of a difference.
 
On a near identical build, I thought 512MB to 1GB was sufficient. Depends on your needs, but it will unlikely help gaming to have more than 1GB, the GPU is going to be running out of juice anyway.
 
Sorry, dumb question, but I was playing with my friends Trinity build (MSI) and we couldn't figure out how to change the amount of VRAM allocated for the APU. There was no setting in the UEFI BIOS to allow this, just the enable / disable the onboard graphics to discrete PCI-E.

Do you need Catalyst Control Center to configure this?
 
nenforcer said:
Sorry, dumb question, but I was playing with my friends Trinity build (MSI) and we couldn't figure out how to change the amount of VRAM allocated for the APU. There was no setting in the UEFI BIOS to allow this, just the enable / disable the onboard graphics to discrete PCI-E.

Do you need Catalyst Control Center to configure this?
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With Asrock, it's in the Northbridge settings in the BIOS.
 
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