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My girlfriend has this dino of a PC that makes me cringe Below are the specs, She has a lot of issues with new games but what's giving her the most issues is her GPU only using half the V-RAM it has. Any help would be nice! Thank you. 

 

Girlfriend's Dino-PC

( GPU Specs from GPU-Z)

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512
GPU: G94
Revision: A1
Technology: 65 nm
Die Size: 240 mm^2
Release: Oct 2008
Transistors: 505M
Bios Version: 62.94.86.00.00 (P0545-0019)
Devide ID: 10DE-0625
Subvendor: Zotac/PC Partner (19DA)
POPs/TMUs: 8/254
Bus Interface: PCI-E 1. 1x16 @ x16 1.1
Shaders: 48 Unified
DirectX: 10/SM4.0
Pixel Rate: 5.2 GPixel/s
Textur Rate: 15.6 GTexel/s
Memory Type: GDDR3
Bus Width: 128 bit
Memory Size: 256 MB
Bandwith: 22.5GB/s
Driver Version: nvlddmkm 9.18.13.4052 (ForceWare 340.52) / Win7
GPU Clock: Default 650MHz
Memory: Default 700 MHz
Shader: 1600 MHz
I'm using the latest Drivers, and latest Nvidia Geforce Experiance!
(End GPU Specifics)
 
(General Information)
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
Bit Version: 32-bit
3.1GB of RAM
Avg. RAM Speed: 333 MHz
Motherboard: Dell 0GM819
 
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My girlfriend has this dino of a PC that makes me cringe Below are the specs, She has a lot of issues with new games but what's giving her the most issues is her GPU only using half the V-RAM it has. Any help would be nice! Thank you. 

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

 

Is it AGP? Because some old AGP motherboards require you to specify the AGP aperture size for the card's VRAM.

 

Edit- There! Snipped it, you whingers.

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How about buying a new videocard.

 

Is it AGP? Because some old AGP motherboards require you to specify the AGP aperture size for the card's VRAM.

 
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Is it AGP? Because some old AGP motherboards require you to specify the AGP aperture size for the card's VRAM.

nothing that supports lga775 has AGP.. Right?

 

 

 

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nothing that supports lga775 has AGP.. Right?

There were a few mobos that did back in the day. Not overly popular but they existed.

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There were a few mobos that did back in the day. Not overly popular but they existed.

hmm. You learn something everyday.

 

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