Geforce 8500 took away 1 GB of my RAM?

SkinnyBobz

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Hi all, I have a bit of a strange problem here that no one else on the internet seems to know ( At least not from what I can find)

My Geforce seems to have took away More than a GB of RAM that i can use.

In task manager it says that i only have a total of 2942 available RAM.

My system properties say that there is 4.00 GB of Ram intalled.. Also if i go into NVIDIA control panel and go to system information it tells me that its got 1215 shared system memory.

Is this normal, If I put 2 Geforce 8500 in will it use 2500 of RAM and also is there a way to change the shared RAM it can use?

Appreciate any help!


 

SkinnyBobz

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Im running 64 bit vista.
I have heard there is a way to change the RAM in the BIOS but i thought it was for onboard cards, if that makes sense.

Here is the graphics card info:


[Display]
Operating System: Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium, 64-bit (Service Pack 2)
DirectX version: 11.0
GPU processor: GeForce 8500 GT
Driver version: 340.52
Direct3D API version: 10
CUDA Cores: 16
Core clock: 500 MHz
Shader clock: 1026 MHz
Memory data rate: 666 MHz
Memory interface: 128-bit
Total available graphics memory: 1727 MB
Dedicated video memory: 512 MB DDR2
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 1215 MB
Video BIOS version: 60.86.41.00.85

Cheers for the help!