Hi, first post so bear with me if I do something wrong.  I just put together a sytem using an  MSI K9N6PGM2-V M/B

  The Chipset is GeForce 6100/nForce 430 chipset ( I think it's actually 6150se ) My question is about the Shared Video memory.  I have 2 GB ram installed and had the BIOS UMA setting at 128 mb.  In looking at the ADAPTER info It showed 256 mb memory.  If I increase the BIOS setting to 256 mb I then see 512 for the Adapter.

What would be the best setting.? Does the chipset have ANY of it's own memory for video or does it depend entirely on borrowed system RAM?  Does increasing shared meory help or is there a point where it's overkill?

Another thing is (sorry if this sounds dumb ) exactly what chipset is this? I mean it's also called MCP61  Is this Gforce or Nforce? Or is the Nforce 430 referring to the Video?

Thanks for any COMMENTS or helpAs for the shared memory- it sounds like your chipset has some VRAM to itself- but it's hard to say, since it appears to double what you give it. I suggest sticking with 256 for the adapter. If you run a program that WANTS more video memory, you can always up it for that program; OTHERWISE the RAM will sit unused... and we wouldn't want that!


"GeForce" is the brand name of Nvidia's line of Graphics. "NForce" is their motherboard chipset- your integrated video is a "GeForce" and your chipset is NForce.

Well that helps understanding the Chip Set as far as Gforce and Nforce.  Still, the MSI site for this Board calls the Chipset: NVIDIA® MCP61 (P/S/V)  and  Tiger Direct specs show: NVIDIA GeForce 6100/nForce 430

CPUZ also shows it as MCP61.  Also, I was searching the Nvidia site for drivers and I think I ended up with Gforce 6150se.    I will DIG a little deeper.............

Thanks