Hypermemory

Anyone?

"Hypermemory" is memory that your graphics card is "sharing" from the system memory. This is typically available for both GPU and system use. On low end and integrated cards it acts as the card's only memory, and is part of why these cards are so slow. In your case it basically acts as an overflow, in case you ever (somehow!) exceed the 1GB of VRAM you have. It is slower to access the RAM via the NB than it is to access the onboard VRAM, but it's better to have slow memory in that case than none at all!

It's part of Vista and 7. They do it by default and I don't think you can turn it off.

thanks Futan and Phaedrus, I thought it was a major problem since a graphics card isnt suppose to share with system memory. Btw Phaedrus, I noticed you have a 4870 as well, does your ccc hardware information show up as hypermemory as well?

As I said in my PM (so this is just for the record), there isn't anything about Hypermemory in my CCC (driver v. 9.10), but my DXDiag does report that I have 1018MB dedicated graphics memory + 1791MB shared memory (aka hypermemory).