Turbo Cache/Hyper-Memory Stealing System Memory

[Mandrake]

Simple question that I couldn't really find an answer to online. If I buy a cheapo video card for a system that won't be used for games at all, I'm not going to need more than the 128MB on the card itself. Can I limit how much memory TurboCache/HyperMemory takes from the system ram?

 

[TomGreen321]

Which card are you looking at? You should be able to find something with dedicated ran for under 50 bucks pretty easily.

 

[pxc]

I don't think you can control it, but it should only allocate system memory while in 3D mode. And even then, it doesn't always take the maximum.

There are very cheap non-TC/HM cards as mentioned above. Here are 2 examples:

$26 Asus EAX300 128MB http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=EAX300-128MB&cat=VCD

$33 Asus GeForce 6600 128MB http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=EN6600-128-WB&cat=VCD

It's not like HM/TC cards are much less than those.

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