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EHM-0654 Murray:

--- Quote ---Originally posted by Turista
This suggestion appears to me a bit unussual... if you card just have 256 Mb, changing AGP aperture to 300 Mb what benefits do you take? Improves anything??
And the change to 300 it´s impossible, at least, with Asus Bios, becouse options are just  64,128,256 or 512.
Safe landings,

Simão Oliveira
Euroholidays Manager
--- End quote ---

It's rare to see a BIOS that will allow you to set the AGP Aperture to anything other than a power of 2.

The AGP aperture is the maximum size of data transfer that the CPU will attempt to page between main memory and the AGP card as a single read/write operation, so setting it greater than the amount of GMem would be useless. Most of the benchmarks I have seen for older cards (pre-GeForceFX) didn't see any difference in speed between the various Aperture settings; suggestive, perhaps, of manufacturer smoke and mirrors yet again.

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