Upgrading Video Memory - HP Brio 8300 Online Manual

Upgrading Video Memory

How Much Video
The amount of video memory that your computer has depends on the particular model that you have. To find out how
Memory Does My
much video memory is installed, select the Display icon from the Control Panel and click the Information tab.
Computer Have?
Why Increase the
You should upgrade the amount of video memory if you want to increase your display resolution or the number of
Amount of Video
displayable colors.
Memory?
For example, with 1 MB, you can have up to
increase the resolution to 1024 x 768, you will only be able to have 256 colors available, which will result in a flickering
and bad ergonomic display. In this case, 2 MB of video memory is necessary to keep the optimal colors and refresh rate.
How Much Video If your computer has 2 MB of video memory on the system board, it cannot be increased (unless you use a separate video
Memory Can I Add?
card, such as an AGP video card).
If your computer has an
video memory module.
Note
AGP video card supplied with 4 MB of video memory, you can upgrade it to 8 MB by installing a
If you install an AGP video card, the video memory on the system board (if any) will no longer be available. The 2 MB
of system board video memory is not added to the total amount of available video memory.
65K colors with a screen resolution of 800 x 600 (default setting). If you
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