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Is it possible to share video memory from the computer to the videocard? I've read that it is possible if you have a built-in videocard, the problem is that you wil loose loading speed. Is it also possible with my GTX470?? Cause i'll be running out of memory shortly and I dont want to buy a Tesla ( no money! )hahah

nope, it's not possible, search the forum, I can't quite give you the technical anwser, but it has been asked several times before.

THX alot i'll look into it.

For what I have understood so far, project data have to be stored close to the cuda processing cores to get fast treatment. Using the memory on the motherboard requires a permanent data exchange through slow bus, allowing ridiculous rendering speed...

Gainward is releasing a 2gb 460 card

http://www.gainward.com/main/edm/GTX460 ... 0_2GB.html

I hope that more and more gpu brands start to see a real market in gpu rendering and hopefully we will get more capable "cheap" gpu's with lots of ram, now there is not only gamers out there

Yes, but the fact is that there are just few of us, relatively speaking, who need a lot of video RAM. When our numbers grow, prices of ray tracing friendly video cards( those with 4 and 6 GB of ram) should drop considerately.

Cheers,
n1k