Not all RAM usable

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mathiascali

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Just bought a new Acer laptop running windows 8 64 bit with 6 GB of RAM installed. Windows is saying only 5.82 GB is usable. How can I fix this? I checked the BIOS and found nothing related to RAM.

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Does this laptop have "Intel HD" graphics? If so the system is using RAM from your "6GB" to serve as video memory. This is perfectly normal and can be set to smaller or greater values in your BIOS with most laptops.

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Does this laptop have "Intel HD" graphics? If so the system is using RAM from your "6GB" to serve as video memory. This is perfectly normal and can be set to smaller or greater values in your BIOS with most laptops.
 
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