Thread: How much RAM should I reserve for my graphics?

I have an onboard graphics card NVIDIA GeForce 6100 for my asus motherboard; I currently have 1GB of system RAM. That is 1024 MB of RAM (dual channel memory with two 512 MB DIMMs). Since I don't have a dedicated graphics card, I need to allocate some of my system RAM to the graphics card. I have checked in the BIOS settings that I can allocate up to 128MB as on-chip-buffer size or as shared memory. Now my question is what is the optimal setting for best quality and performance? Should I go for 64 MB (shared) + 960 MB (system) or am I better off with 128 MB (shared) + 896 MB (system) by sacrificing some system memory to allocate more to graphics! Which one would you recommend?

What is your screen res? That thing can't game, it can only use more memory if you have a huge desktop or something... 65 Mb is more than enough for it if you are running 1280 * 1024.