AGP Aperture size with 256mb ram

[EternalNemesis]

I have the following system:

k7s5a w/256mb ddr cas2.5 "ultra" timing setting
radeon 8500
athlonxp 1600+

winxp AND win98se dual boot

I wanted to know what AGP aperture size should (in theory) maximize my frame rates

-thanks in advance for any help!

 

[Rand]

I'd go with 64 in your situation, but conventional wisdom would dictate 128.

 

[Dacalo]

whatis the conventional way to tell how much we should set it to? I have 512MB RAM for example...

 

[Compellor]

Set it to to either 64 MB or 128 MB. You may get better benchmark scores with a 128 MB setting, so, experiment with it.

 

[BFG10K]

Keep lowering it until you get to the lowest value before AGP is disabled. This will be between 32 MB -128 MB.

 

[chizow]

I get best results with AGP set to 128MB and I have 512MB DDR. Some ppl say to go with 1/2 of your system memory, but you just need to find your sweet spot as different cards/RAM/boards/components/cpus/FSB settings etc. will affect your results.

Chiz