Slightly different memory question

Scott sclewin at sgaming.ca
Wed Jan 7 15:17:02 UTC 2009


Mark Haney wrote:
> That depends, does your video card use shared video memory? 
Yes, it is shared memory.  This is actually one of the main reasons I 
went with 4GB of RAM for this laptop.

> If it's NOT shared memory, then you're only seeing 3.5GB on the 32bit
> system. However, I'd be willing to bet that you ARE using shared memory,
> as typically a 32-bit system sees 3.7 to 3.8GB of RAM our of 4GB.
Okay, so the 3.75GB would be right in the middle of the average and 
makes sense.

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Scott
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