a question

[aznpride2pac]

i heard from people that you can put your computer's memory into a graphics card's memory, is that true? if it is, how do you do it?

 

[mgoldb2]

i heard from people that you can put your computer's memory into a graphics card's memory, is that true? if it is, how do you do it?

You cant phycially remove memory from computer and put it in a graphic card.

What the person might of ment is in intergrated graphic cards your graphic cards uses your system memory. This is alot slower then the video card having it own memory.

 

[34erd]

Maybe the geforce 6200 turbo cache is what u were thinking of. I think it comes with a tiny bit of onboard memory but also shares memory with the computer. Or something like that im not very noligable with this stuff.

 

[run4it]

what 34erd said sounds very farmiliar to me too. i'm pretty sure it was only a feature of pci-express cards though.

 

[Archangel]

what 34erd said sounds very farmiliar to me too. i'm pretty sure it was only a feature of pci-express cards though.

not all pci-e cards,.. only tha 6200 with turbo cache

 

[run4it]

ya know, turbo cache does sound like a good idea though, why isn't it used on other cards?

 

[0n3]

ya know, turbo cache does sound like a good idea though, why isn't it used on other cards?

its not a good idea for many reasons, mainly it has to go through the system memory to access files, if u have a slow bus or even slow ram this can be very bad and result in horrible bottlenecking. i was never a fan of vram or caching with video cards. unless there is memory onboard dedicated solely to the GPU this will never take. plus onboard memory is much much slower than that of the GPU.

 

[Archangel]

yea... its moe like an seperate, onboard grafic's card,.. ^_^