how much VrAM do i need?. I run at 1600x1200 and i like at least 2x antialiasing and some anisotropic filtering. Games like LOTRO and WOW play ok on my setup, but not great, I actually cant max either out completely, and LOTRO hangs in there slightly above...

my memory reading is too low. Can this be disabled? You have 1 gig of VRAM, no need to worry. Youll never use the hyper memory, that would mean youd have to use your vram first. Even if you somehow managed to use more than whats on your card, the hypermemory...

a difference, but it just seems amazing to me that 512mb of VRAM is now obsolete! Guess I knew that, I just didn't think it all the way through. I remember when 128mb was a big deal and I wished that I could afford a card with that much VRAM. It's not...

nehalem type CPU's working properly. Sure its gona be a while but when they get to a point when 8/16/32 cores are on the dies and they are all seperatly programable then you wont need the ultra crushing cards which we are all wondering where they have got...

9800 GT (can be had for a few dollars more than the 9600) 9800 GTX+ GTX 260 GTX 260 216 I want to support an American card maker. That seems to rule out most ATI cards makers except VisionTek and Diamond. How much VRAM will I need? Does it matter,...

But for 2D non-gaming like Tony mentions, there's less need for a high end card and an X1300 would be fine for most things. And like he mentions in both 2D and 3D the lager the resolution the more VRAM you need, what defines and limits that need is the...

128MB), but hey, I won't complain. :) Thanks for the info! The computation for the vram needed is actually quite easy. First you need to know your resolution, (talking 4:3 aspect ratio here), maybe 1024x768, 1280x1024 or 1600x1200. You also need to...

max. If you were to calculate the actual amount of videomemory needed to run a resolution of 1680x1050x32bit, you get only 6.8MB of vram needed, which is only ~13.5MB needed for double buffering; well within the capability of even a 16MB PCI Rage 128, as long...

a year. Socket 478 is still very upgradeable in comparison. Having very upgradeable SATA III, DDR3, and newer CPU and motherboards make this easier on me just in case I need something more. AMD has burned me so bad, that even though it might be cheaper to go...

score instead. Let's just say, for $700 price tag, there are other good things in life to spend it on. Rumor has it the GTX280 launch price dropped to $500. Regardless, to SLI I would need to get a new motherboard as well, as I got an Intel one that does...