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I recently built my first computer, the specs include an a10 5800k APU, AMD Radeon 7660D GPU,(this is the integrated GPU.) A A78M-E35 Motherboard, CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (one stick), a 1tb Hard Drive, and a 550W PSU. I am getting extremely slow performance with the APU I have installed. For example, on the 3DMark Graphics Test, the average score for the A-10 5800k is 1366 and I am only getting 191. At first, I thought that another stick of ram would help, but for one stick of RAM to 4x the performance is crazy. I looked more into the scores and I realized that only 768MBs of my 8gb RAM was going into my AMD Radeon 7660D. The other benchmark had 2048MBs dedicated to the GPU. Also, the Memory Bus Clock is double on the other benchmark, mine being 667 MHz and the other one being 1200 MHz. I was wondering if there was a way to dedicate more memory to my GPU. Is this a bug or some sort of problem, I would really like to know. Thankyou.
 
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You need to do that via your BIOS. Restart your PC and press whatever button your motherboard uses to enter the BIOS. Go to the CPU tab and allocate more under the video or gpu memory setting (set it to 512mb or 1gb or whatever you want).

Its weird that in the benchmark your computer isn't dynamically allocating more memory to the GPU as needed but I guess it could just be due to inefficiency.
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You need to do that via your BIOS. Restart your PC and press whatever button your motherboard uses to enter the BIOS. Go to the CPU tab and allocate more under the video or gpu memory setting (set it to 512mb or 1gb or whatever you want).

Its weird that in the benchmark your computer isn't dynamically allocating more memory to the GPU as needed but I guess it could just be due to inefficiency.
 
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I just tried to look in my BIOS for a good 30 minutes attempting to allocate more memory to my GPU. I am very confused because I am not very familiar with the MSI BIOS. I do not know what to do....
 
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Yes, I am pretty sure I am. I went to the MSI website and looked for my motherboard update for the BIOS and whenver I would run the application I would get an error message saying that the OS was not compatible. Is there a way to automatically check for updates for my Motherboard?
 
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I am one version behind on my BIOS. When I downloaded the file, i cannot run the Application inside because my "OS is not compatible." I ran as administrator and it said the file could not be found. I am missing a step and I know it.
 
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Seems like this link you provided is old or outdated because I am running a Windows 7 64-bit OS and this gives me links to Windows 98. I am not very good with computers, so I am really trying. Is there any way to have it install other than manually...
 
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I have decided to have one of my friends do this for me. I am completely lost. Anyways, thanks for your help.
 
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