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Video card taking 1.7GB of system RAM. Please help.

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I recently built a new computer with Vista Home Premium 64bit. I went to run the Vista Experience score index and my show details showed me something quite odd.

http://img401.imageshack.us/my.php?image=imagelr4.jpg

It seems as if my video card is taking 1.7GB of my system RAM, how can I get it to stop? (I want to hit a 5.9 in RAM score but I believe it won't as long as my video card is taking that much RAM from the system RAM).

A single GTX does not need 2.5GB of Video RAM, that's absurd. Please, this isn't a stupid bragging topic or anything (I asked on another site and got some pretty immature responses because they all thought it was a bragging topic since I had a 5.9 in my shot...ewww scary, they failed to see that there was a problem.) Several of the people on the EVGA forums were more interested in the fact that SupCom was crashing with 4GB of RAM, and the issue of a GTX with 2.5GB of VRAM was tossed out the window. My RAM is running at 4-4-4-12 timings 2.2V not overclocked just at retailer suggested settings. I know several people that have 2GB of the same RAM and are getting 5.9s with the same RAM and OS as I have. :(

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I'm no expert in Vista but I wouldn't worry about it. I don't think MS writes very good benchmarks. If you really want a 5.9 you could try removing 2 gbs of ram, or you could photoshop a 5.9 over the 5.2 in your screen capture. If you really want better performance install XP until vista SP1 comes out.

This might be your problem:
http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=3060

Wait until the 23rd and get it from the official site.

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Weird looks like it has turbocache enabled??

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