Radeon X1550 Super

I recently brought a X1550 Super (As the topic implies) but Ive found something weird. The memory size is actually 1024 MB instead of the 512 MB standard.I was just wondering what on earth happened ? Ive updated my drivers just this morning and its still say 1024 MB Memory.Thanks in advance.Radeon X1550 Super
Very strange, are you sure the 1024 that appears its not from your ram?Radeon X1550 Super
Pretty sure it's stealing the RAM.
I dont quite get what you mean stealing from the ram.
I currently have 2048 GB of ram running at a speed of 800 MHzThanks for the reply though
[QUOTE=''rob919'']I dont quite get what you mean stealing from the ram.
I currently have 2048 GB of ram running at a speed of 800 MHzThanks for the reply though[/QUOTE]he means that the video card is using 512 mb of your ram to the video applications, but having 1gb of vram its completely unneccesary.
Oh so its stealing my ram.. Hmm is there any way to stop this ?Thanks again.
Dont worry I called the cops and they caught my ram :D, He was also trying to steal my soundcard.
Nah seriously what can I do ?
:lol: Try and disable it in the BIOS, check the vid card manual. There is no reason for it to be using that much, quite frankly it shouldn't even need 512mb either.
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Thanks!, Just one more quick question.. How do you change your BIOS :D lol
Usually you hit Delete as the comp is booting up, then look around in there. It should tell you in the manual how to disable it.
The X1550 is anything but Super. It's meant for putting on Powerpoint Presentations and various 2D charting and graphing in business. Beginner gaming cards will have a ''600'' as the last three numerics in their names, anything with a smaller number just isn't suitable for discussion on a game-oriented hardware forum, really. FYI, all it actually is, or was, is an X1300 vanilla with a speed boost so it's practically an X1300 Pro, just not quite, so in its case that ''550'' is rather misleading -- it's not really ''close'' to good enough for a beginning game player. Any video card that includes Hypercaching (that's the business of borrowing main system RAM) automatically has extra strikes against it also. (For an nVidia card, the term to look out for is ''Turbocache'' -- same exact thing, different name.)
[QUOTE=''Kiwi_1''] Any video card that includes Hypercaching (that's the business of borrowing main system RAM) automatically has extra strikes against it also. (For an nVidia card, the term to look out for is ''Turbocache'' -- same exact thing, different name.) [/QUOTE]You know what? I think my nVidia 8800GTS 640MB video card may be ''turbocaching'' on me...I just checked Vista's display properties, and it says this:Total Available Graphics memory: 1406MBDedicated Graphics memory: 640MB Shared Video memory: 0MBShared system memory: 766MBSorry for stealing the thread, but should I try andprevent my system from sharing its main memory with the graphics card (if that's what it's even doing)?
There are two recent articles about Vista and the Two GB crash barrier at AnandTech, and Vista is doing some questionable stuff in Supreme Commander and other games, things XP doesn't do, doesn't have to do. You might want to see if any of those findings give you a lead on eliminating the inefficiency.