1st timer GPU setup questions

[Flippin' Sweet]

Can anyone tell me what should be turned on or off for my video card (9600XT
128mb oc'd to 525/300)? (VPU, anti-aliasing, etc)?

Should I set the AGP to 8x or 4x?

And in my BIOS there's a setting called "AGP Aperture" what should this be
set to? Also, what should the "AGP voltage" be set to?

Thanks.

 

[Tod]

Can anyone tell me what should be turned on or off for my video card (9600XT
128mb oc'd to 525/300)? (VPU, anti-aliasing, etc)?

Should I set the AGP to 8x or 4x?

And in my BIOS there's a setting called "AGP Aperture" what should this be
set to? Also, what should the "AGP voltage" be set to?

Thanks.

AGP should automatically default to highest setting supported by the
motherboard and the graphics card, what motherboard are you using ?
Hopefully it defaulted to AGP 8X.

AGP Aperture should never be set lower then 32MBs
64MB or 128MB will work fine for 95% of the PCs out there.

AGP voltage is automatically set

 

[Batman or Superman]

AGP should automatically default to highest setting supported by the
motherboard and the graphics card, what motherboard are you using ?
Hopefully it defaulted to AGP 8X.

AGP Aperture should never be set lower then 32MBs
64MB or 128MB will work fine for 95% of the PCs out there.

AGP voltage is automatically set

Actually, the AGP Aperture should be set to half the amount of total
system RAM you have, not video RAM. Example would be if you have 512mb
of RAM, then you would set your aperture to 256mb. As the previous
poster stated, don't mess with your AGP voltage, very bad idea.

 

[Connected]

Actually, the AGP Aperture should be set to half the amount of total
system RAM you have, not video RAM. Example would be if you have 512mb
of RAM, then you would set your aperture to 256mb.

I have 1gb of ram so I should set it at 512mb? Hehe.

 

[JK]

Sorry, that's not right. The previous poster was correct. 64 mb or 128 mb.
I tested 32, 64, 128 and 256 mb aperture sizes, and 128 gave the best
performance. On the ATI web site, the faq's in the support section will
give you the answer. I checked it out, and the answer is right.

JK

"Batman or Superman"