AGP Aperture Size.... The Truth is Out There

[Spritzup]

Well seeing as I did them twice, and the only thing I was changing was the aperture size, I find that hard to believe. But it'd be nice to know why 128 meg will do, I mean why does it work?? I don't know why everybody just takes this for granted, I was under the impression that everybody was trying to get the last bit of performance out of there rigs. Yet we just take if for granted with the aperture size.

[Anders]

I would use more than one benchmark, and run the tests more than twice for each aperture size setting if you want accurate results.

[Ravens Nest]

Stubzz Don't ATI recoemnd that you have it set to either 64 or 128mb, or am i just dreaming. Either way it doesn't make any difference
Yep they recommend 64MB AGP size, and i tested all the available AGP aperture sizes 32-512 and found 64 had the least amount of stuttering when benchmarking 3dMarks2003..

Also found that "Gothic 2" on my PC runs much better with 64 any higher or lower and it becomes a lot slower.

Also tested my brothers and cousins GF4 ti4200 and found 128MB to be the sweet spot with them.

[Spritzup]

Can you post a link where they reccomend this, I'd be curious to see. Thanks

[Stubzz]

http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/...GPApertureSize

That kinda says it, can't find the original link I read

[Ravens Nest]

Yep thats the one stubzz , the only thing is it say if you have a 128MB or more video card then you can set it to 128MB agp aperture..hmmm im confused now

But then again 64MB is still the sweet spot for me

Here's a link to a rage3d topic about it..
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthre...re+recommended