mcyi9ky2

hi,

1. i am going to build a computer by using a Gigabyte GA-K8N51GMF-9 motherboard. i am justing wondering whether the board will support a PCIE 256MB display card?
(p.s. i could not find any relevant info from the manual)

2. my friend has a computer with ASUS P4S8X-MX motherboard. under the bios setting, i found that the board only can select 128mb memory for the AGP display card.
i just wanna ask whether it will support 256mb agp display card?

thx

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suprasteve

if it's got a pci-e slot, I don't think there's any reason why it wouldn't take full advantage of all the memory, the memory usage shouldn't really be affected by the slot either though, maybe the bios but it still sounds weird. But to answer your question, if the board has a pci-e slot, you'll be fine

ceewi1

I'd bet strongly that that's the AGP aperture size he's looking at, which determines how much system memory can be allocated to the video card if the video memory is running low. It in no way determines what graphics cards the board will support. Your friend should be fine with a 256MB graphics card.

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