Installed 4gb ram, only 3.19gb in use...why???

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
Solution
USAFRet


32bit OS, the most you can use is ~3.5GB.
The rest...~0.3GB...is taken up by the system.

What you see is normal.
Sort by date Sort by votes
USAFRet

USAFRet

Titan
Moderator
Mar 16, 2013
171,440
17,907
184,590


1. What OS is this? 32bit or 64bit?
2. What CPU/GPU combination?
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
USAFRet

USAFRet

Titan
Moderator
Mar 16, 2013
171,440
17,907
184,590


32bit OS, the most you can use is ~3.5GB.
The rest...~0.3GB...is taken up by the system.

What you see is normal.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Solution
photonboy

photonboy

Titan
Jun 20, 2006
21,567
13
85,015


Windows 32-bit can only "talk" to what's called a memory map and that is 4GB in TOTAL.

This includes not only the memory sticks (4GB) that you attached but also the VIDEO MEMORY as well as some minor things.

It sounds then that you have 512MB if VRAM (video memory). When the computer comes up it assigns this 512MB to the memory map, the other hardware resources and then what is left over from the 4GB memory map can be addressed.

If you'd had 2GB only then it would ALL have been utilized since you wouldn't exceed what is addressable in the map.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom