On Friday 08 June 2007 16:47, rudolf wrote: > On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 09:37 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > On Monday 04 June 2007 09:12, primm wrote: > > > My mobo info says 'Geforce 6100 with up to 384Mb shared memory'. How > > > do I find out how much memory it's taking? Is it RAM it's taking? > > > > What exactly are you trying to find out? Those 384 MB reside on the > > video board itself. By "shared memory" it means this memory can appear > > directly in the address space of the host system and be accessed just > > like primary RAM. These video boards do not use any of your primary > > system RAM, though they do take up address space. This is in contrast > > to some mainboard video hardware, which uses system RAM as its > > framebuffer and primitive storage. > > > > Depending on the CPU and mainboard you use, the presence of video RAM in > > the system's physical address space may or may not limit the amount of > > primary RAM you can actually access. In particular, without a CPU and > > mainboard capable of supporting PAE (physical address extension), the > > need to bring the video (and possibly other PCI card) RAM into the > > 32-bit physical address space may limit usable primary RAM to 3 or 3.5 > > GB. > > Nope, exactly the opposite, shared video memory means it allocates or > reserve system memory (RAM) for the video card. > > http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=1399&p=2 > http://forums.cnet.com/5208-10149_102-0.html?forumID=7&threadID=119317&mess >ageID=1354197 > > To answer primm's questions: > > 1. Check the BIOS > 2. Yes, it is RAM > > Regards > > Rudolf
Thanks Rudolf. Nice articles. I still can't see anything in my bios apart from the framebuffer size which ranges from 32Mb to 128Mb. Could that be the shared memory bit? Cheers, Steve. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
