8 gb of installed ram, only 2.96 usable

mtrinh

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Hi, I just bought a new computer set up and installed everything fine (at least I thought). When I went to look at my memory in the system's information, it tells me that I have 8 gb of installed ram, which is what i bought, but only 2.96 gb of it is usable.

I have been reading online and I have tried doing the maximum memory under the msconfig and when I go to the BIOs screen for my motherboard, I cannot find a RAM remapping to enable. I looked around online and I read that it was already enabled as default.

This is the motherboard I bought
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128566

and the ram I am using is
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226095

I bought them both in a package deal. I am also using my own graphics card.

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Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

 
Solution
you bought a 32 bit operating system. you are limited to a max of 4gb of ram. add ontop of that is the fact that the APU will take up some of the ram for its GPU section

another mistake here is the fact that you did not buy high speed ram. for APU systems, the faster the ram the better with 1866 and 2133mhz ram being the best choice
you bought a 32 bit operating system. you are limited to a max of 4gb of ram. add ontop of that is the fact that the APU will take up some of the ram for its GPU section

another mistake here is the fact that you did not buy high speed ram. for APU systems, the faster the ram the better with 1866 and 2133mhz ram being the best choice
 
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John Bauer

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Yep.

As a matter of fact I've seen benchmarks that put 1600Mhz vs 2400Mhz RAM and the difference can be as much as 15fps.