this asian guy told me if my pc has a 480 MB RAM instead of 512... than this card will do the job... it will increase up 2 512.. because graphic card share memory.. he told me something like that is it tru ?
2007-06-15 12:28:41 · 6 answers · asked by Kelvin R 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
Some video cards do "borrow" some of the RAM to perform their tasks. This is often referred to as "Shared video".
It is, however, possible to have 480 MB of memory without shared video in some cases. You may want to check the specifications of your computer more closely.
2007-06-15 12:33:43 · answer #1 · answered by Promethean Geek 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is right. Your PC has integrated graphics that does not have its own videoram. It is designed to share RAM from the system RAM on the motherboard.
Now when you install that graphics card with its own onboard videoram, your motherboard BIOS automatically STOPS allocating system RAM for integrated graphics. The system RAM previously used for graphics NOW become available again as system RAM. Overall system performance improves a bit. Gaming performance improves significantly with the discrete graphics card.
2007-06-15 13:12:30 · answer #2 · answered by Karz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey,
More or less he is right. When it comes to videos or graphics, this card will take the load off of the processor and RAM. So, it won't increase your RAM, but it frees it up for other things.
Regards,
Brandon
2007-06-15 12:33:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the linked fee of the gadget will boost somewhat at bigger resolutions like 1200x900 (custom), 1280x1024, 1600x1200 and so on......with a photographs card that has 256mb on board ram and your gadget would not proportion DDR ram. in case your gadget has integrated video with shared ram between the video card and gadget ram then giving your video extra ram will take it remote from the gadget making it somewhat to reasonably slower.
2016-10-17 10:03:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No modern video cards have had their own memory for years (unless you check the video bios in memory in your BIOS setup) and you should not do that with this new card it does not help much
The memory it has is used for video only
2007-06-15 12:35:14 · answer #5 · answered by startrektosnewenterpriselovethem 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It uses graphics memory to reduce the load on your other ram--so yes he is right.
2007-06-15 12:33:38 · answer #6 · answered by Nemo the geek 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋