Graphics Card... A little info... Please

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Amante18

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Im not Pc smart at all... so a little help would be appreciated
I have an ATI Xpress 200, I know its not that great of a card.. but i dont game on my pc much...
so i was just wondering... how much ram does this card have
Someone told me its onboard, has 64 megs of ram dedicated and up to 256 shared if needed...
someone with some knowledge... let me know

thank you
 
I didn't think those had more than about 16MB onboard and shared whatever else it needed. I'm pretty sure that's what my Compaq had(though I also had a 6200 in there...)

Either way, it makes no real difference. That is a very low performance GPU. If it had 16MB or 256MB onboard, it still wouldn't help the overall performance.
 
nah~ there IS some differences~ well, the onboard graphic cards usually share the memory WITH the sytem memory, which means for instance, if your system memory is 512, and graphic core occupies 256MB, then the total avaliable system memory is dragged down to 256~ such thing will lower down the performance of other operations~ so, if u'r not gamer, make the sharing memory as low as possible till 16MB......
 
I said regardless, there's no real difference. I wasn't insinuating there was no difference, just that there wouldn't be much of one.

There's not too much around, but I'm quite sure this card had 16MB onboard. The card then uses ATI's Hypermemory. Then RAM is only used when it's needed. Thus, IsadorCJ, your example is wrong(at least referring to Nvidia's version, Turbocache). If you only have 512MB, you will still have 512MB. The amount allocated is dynamically changed as needed and unstated.
 
The_Other_One said:
I said regardless, there's no real difference. I wasn't insinuating there was no difference, just that there wouldn't be much of one.

There's not too much around, but I'm quite sure this card had 16MB onboard. The card then uses ATI's Hypermemory. Then RAM is only used when it's needed. Thus, IsadorCJ, your example is wrong(at least referring to Nvidia's version, Turbocache). If you only have 512MB, you will still have 512MB. The amount allocated is dynamically changed as needed and unstated.
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yeah if you dont game then you wont need the RAM, thus it goes to the system. Also the mobo usually sets the amount of RAM the GPU can access depending on how much system RAM there is, and if it's only 512 it wont be anywhere near 256 shared
 
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