Re: AGP video cards sharing system memory

[Jesse Stanford]

Not on dedicated video cards, which all Macs have.  The cases in which  
the RAM is shared with the Video involve integrated graphics cards,  
i.e. the Intel Extreme Graphics chip, etc (pretty much all on-board  
graphics processors)
In the case of dedicated cards such as the Radeon 7000 or whatever it  
is sitting in your AGP slot, they use very little, if any of your  
system memory.
Jesse
On Jan 24, 2005, at 4:40 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I have read that AGP video cards can use system memory for their video
processing purposes, since they have direct access to the memory bus.   
I just wanted
to know if thats true, or more importantly, how to do it.  This would  
be
especially important to me on a system such as the Mac Mini, which has  
only 32MB
VRAM, and I dont believe there is a way to upgrade that.  So throw 1GB  
RAM in
and you now have enough memory to share with your graphics card.

Thanks
Chris
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