Will it only show 3GB or a little more? I know the OS will have access to the gigs not showing up. It is still worth installing, correct?
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Will it only show 3GB or a little more? I know the OS will have access to the gigs not showing up. It is still worth installing, correct?
I have 4GBs and it only shows 3.5GB. I still think that's a great upgrade from 1GB.
Agreed.. go for it. In the future when you update OS, it'll see the full amount. Also, I wonder if you disable the virtual memory completely, if it'll see the full 4gb..?
Ooh, I just tried turning the Virtual Memory off. It now shows my full 4GB of RAM!
Thanks,
Indybird
How do you turn that off?
And is it bad to do that?
You go to System>Advanced>Virtual Memory and turn it off on all drives. Make sure you click "Set" before you click OK. Its usually safe to do that when you have 4GB of RAM, but if you are doing an insanely RAM-intenstive program such as rendering huge pictures then it's probably safer to have Virtual Memory on. The only thing that could happen is that the computer will blue-screen, you will lose any files you have open, and you'll have to restart.
-Indybird
As i believe it, windows allocates 4Gb maximum. So if you have 4Gb installed, start subtracting the ram from your peripherals. If your gfx card is 512mb, subtract that from 4Gb, X-fi cards have 64Mb so subtract that aswell, and so fourth.
I dont know if this is completely accurate but it seems to fit in place with the evidence.
J-Roc: as far as I know that only applies if the mobo is sharing system memory with those devices. I had a little mini-itx board once that would let you specify how much memory to dedicate for the onboard GPU. (16mb - 128mb)