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i7 3960x with 4gb ram but only 3.15gb usable

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  • Intel i7
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July 6, 2014 4:29:16 PM

hello my friend has i7 3960x with 4gb ram and gt 710 and a 64bit windows why only 3.15gb is usable?

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July 6, 2014 4:34:34 PM

What motherboard does he have?
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July 6, 2014 5:02:33 PM

There's always some ram reserved for hardware.
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July 6, 2014 5:07:06 PM

ss202sl said:
There's always some ram reserved for hardware.


Absent an IGP the hardware reserve is typically around 20MiB.

I'd be willing to put money on the motherboard having a legacy PCI slot
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