4gig ram and 2.8 useable?

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Dave Parker

I've got 4gb ram in my machine but Control Panel > System indicates 2814
mb. I realize in 32-bit that I lose some address space, but this seems a
little silly esp. with a 512mb video card. How do I troubleshoot this?

thanks,
Dave
 
Look for the answer under your other posting.

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What does your video RAM have to do with system RAM? Uh, nothing? Unless
your video RAM is shared with system RAM. But you say you have a 512MB video
card, so one must assume you're not using shared RAM for video. True or
false?

Lang
 
I have 512mb on the video card - and of course Windows has to account for
that - is has to live in the allowed 4gb address space for 32 bits. Still I
was expecting to get 3.5 gb rather than 2.8 gb of unusable RAM. More than
1/2gb of address space that something has grabbed - I would just like to
figure out what... 680i SLI motherboard with a core2 Duo Extreme x6800 and
a single GeForce 7950 GS.

Dave
 
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