BIOS & AGP

[jdunn9505]

Current motherboard BIOSs contain the AGP options of “Graphic Win Size”, and “Share Memory Size”. After lengthy research on Google and your site, I think I understand how AGP manages memory, but what do the above BIOS settings have to do with it? Are they (or 1 of them) only on boards that have integrated AGP?
Also, I have been told that boards with an integrated AGP video port, and an additional AGP port (slot) on the motherboard, would degrade the performance of a high end video adapter, because some of the on-board video functions would interfere with (or degrade) the stand-alone adapter power.

 

[Crashman]

Share Memory size is the amount of main RAM you want to set asside for the onboard video. If your system contains an AGP slot, use it, as onboard video is usually fairly poor. Most boards disable the onboard video entirely to use the card, either automatically or by jumper.

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