maximum grafix card RAM question

i was wondering, our old dell (again) can only support 768 mb of ram, when i am upgdrading the grafix card is that the max ram it can support for grafix card ram?thxmaximum grafix card RAM question
[QUOTE=''queenfan66'']i was wondering, our old dell (again) can only support 768 mb of ram, when i am upgdrading the grafix card is that the max ram it can support for grafix card ram?[/QUOTE]The two are entirely separate and have no direct inter-relationship. Indirectly, however, it makes for poor logic to add a very powerful and expensive video card to a system that has less market value than the video card does. The only time that a video card with more than 256 MBs of VRAM is usable for gaming is at resolutions in the 1900 by 1200 region and upward, on expensive displays, and even then if the video card isn't powerful enough, it won't be able to make its VRAM available for the game to use. The computers that have the speed and power to match to a video card like that will have a minimum system memory capability of 2 GBs, not 768 like the antique Dell that you have referred to. From my point of view, you will be far better off to either save the money now for a more thorough upgrade later, or set most of it aside for that, and only invest a rather small amount in an incremental video improvement, while realizing that it's going to be money thrown away anyway, because you will soon be well rid of the old PC, new video in it and all.(In Edit) P. S. Here in these forums you will see a great deal of exaggeration about a situation that can arise with the name ''bottle necking'', but it is just not usually anything at all as bad as the forum folks here want to make it out to be. However, there is exactly one PC here at my place with that kind of RAM restriction, and it is an eight or nine year old K6-2 PC that has only a 500 MHz CPU. It also has only an AGP1 slot, so a 4X or 8X card won't fit. But if one would do so, the CPU is so slow by comparison to the potential of a high zoot video card, that a lot of that fancy card's capability would be lost, squeezed through the narrow ''bottle neck'' of low CPU performance. FYI, I put it back together to play some old Tie Fighter and Wing Commander Space Flying (Arcade style simulator) Games, and had the very devil of a time finding a hard drive it would work compatibly with (no new parts, all stuff from the discard pile in the shop). maximum grafix card RAM question
768 may not be your max memmory, 512's might work if there low density.