Setting Laptop Memory Shared Mem From 64 - 128?

Greetings -

I have a Gateway MX7118 laptop. It has an ATI X200 graphics card. Docs state a max of 64 megs of shared memory. The bios will allow me to set the shared memory max to 128 megs. What will happen if I set the shared memory to 128 megs? Where the docs just being conservative? The laptop only has 512 megs of ram. If by chance this would work, I would really only be interesint in doing it if then if it all.

Thanks for any input.

 

64 meg video is plenty

leave it

 

I have an integrated video card on one of my mobos. I honestly didn't see any noticeable differences between 64 & 128MB. I believe anything gained in the video was more than offset by the loss of main memory for everything else. If you're hoping to do some better gaming with 128MB, I think you'll find the same thing.

I recently installed an Nvidia 128MB AGP card, and was amazed at how much better & faster everything on my computer ran. Freeing up the shared memory & resources did wonders. Even though I don't game much, it was worth it just for the speed boost.

 

I am not sure with my MB adding a video card is an option. I don't think the mobo is designed for it.