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Are there any ATI cards that dont share system memory,it seems like all the
ones I look at have what they call (hyper ) something or other. |
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On Mar 12, 12:04 pm, "Tony Pacc" wrote:
Are there any ATI cards that dont share system memory,it seems like all the ones I look at have what they call (hyper ) something or other. Most ATI AGP or PCI express cards do NOT share system memory. The exception of course would be laptop video setups, but thats a factor of the laptop constraints as anything else. James |
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"Tony Pacc" wrote in message ... Are there any ATI cards that dont share system memory,it seems like all the ones I look at have what they call (hyper ) something or other. You must be looking at the bottom feeder cards. You'll find the same thing with Nvidia too. Most ATI cards have discrete memory. The RV370 GPU and the X300 family are the ones where this is found for the most part. http://www.techreport.com/reviews/20...e/index.x?pg=1 |
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"Hyper" is a nice marketing term to get people to buy the cheaper graphics
cards. I would say every video card made today has the ability to use shared system memory. The more memory you have on your graphics card the less chance you would use system memory. You can minimize the chance of using system memory by going into the motherboard BIOS and setting "shared system memory" to 32MBs (but not smaller). "Tony Pacc" wrote in message ... Are there any ATI cards that dont share system memory,it seems like all the ones I look at have what they call (hyper ) something or other. |
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Don't confuse the ability of an ATI video chip to implement shared
memory with the matter of whether or not an actual implementation on an AGP or PCI Express card actually does so. Almost all of the chips have the ability to do so (when used directly on the motherboard). Most of the discreet AGP and PCI Express cards, however, have onboard dedicated memory and do not actually use shared memory. Tony Pacc wrote: Are there any ATI cards that dont share system memory,it seems like all the ones I look at have what they call (hyper ) something or other. |
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"James" wrote in message
oups.com... On Mar 12, 12:04 pm, "Tony Pacc" wrote: Are there any ATI cards that dont share system memory,it seems like all the ones I look at have what they call (hyper ) something or other. Most ATI AGP or PCI express cards do NOT share system memory. The exception of course would be laptop video setups, but thats a factor of the laptop constraints as anything else. James Take a look at http://ati.amd.com/technology/hypermemory.html |
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"Tony Pacc" wrote in message ... "James" wrote in message oups.com... On Mar 12, 12:04 pm, "Tony Pacc" wrote: Are there any ATI cards that dont share system memory,it seems like all the ones I look at have what they call (hyper ) something or other. Take a look at http://ati.amd.com/technology/hypermemory.html Why don't you spend more time on the ATI site to look for cards that do NOT share sys mem? |
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In gforce world there are TurboCache cards which have only 32 onboard
memory and use system memory Marx |
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On Mar 12, 5:43 pm, "Tony Pacc" wrote:
"James" wrote in message oups.com... On Mar 12, 12:04 pm, "Tony Pacc" wrote: Are there any ATI cards that dont share system memory,it seems like all the ones I look at have what they call (hyper ) something or other. Most ATI AGP or PCI express cards do NOT share system memory. The exception of course would be laptop video setups, but thats a factor of the laptop constraints as anything else. James Take a look at http://ati.amd.com/technology/hypermemory.html What you are ignoring is what is stocked and what sells. Just because one x1600 has hypermemory, does not mean that all of them do. Go down to Best Buy or take a look at Newegg or tigerdirect, and compare the number of cards with hypermemory to the ones without. I've bought 3 ATI cards in the past 4 years and none of them had hypermemory. It was most common in the low end - X300s. I had an x700SE and it did NOT have hypermemory(though it is on that list). I have an x1600 XT and it does NOT have hypermemory. James |
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