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Sky427 Novice Member Joined: 3/30/08 Posts: 72	7/16/08 3:27:09 PM#1 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) So I bought a new system today errr..yesterday 4am now and decided to go to system requierments labs to see it say "PASS" and it did boy was I happy I scrolled down and looked processor check, hardrive check, video card check but wait! My video card has 1.7 gigs of memory on it?! what the heck? -run dxdiag it too says I have 1.7 gigs of memory on that thing now its only suppose to have 512 on it (8500 GT) am I going crazy or is there somthing more to this?
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Gamefreek333 Novice Member Joined: 12/16/07 Posts: 172	7/16/08 3:30:57 PM#2 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Who cares, you could probably run games really nicely. Haha
User Deleted	7/16/08 3:32:48 PM#3 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) dxdiag plz
appel Novice Member Joined: 4/23/04 Posts: 53	7/16/08 3:33:37 PM#4 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Yeah if your running Vista and Nvidia, the video card can use the PC ram as well, or something like that.
Vortigon Apprentice Member Joined: 2/12/06 Posts: 709 RMT is for weak people.	7/16/08 3:35:14 PM#5 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) That is strange, I wouldn't worry too much, as long as it's not a bios problem with the card it should be fine. Obviously, you only have 512mb memory though :) Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.
Sky427 Novice Member Joined: 3/30/08 Posts: 72	7/16/08 3:43:40 PM#6 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Originally posted by appel Yeah if your running Vista and Nvidia, the video card can use the PC ram as well, or something like that. This makes sense, didnt think about that http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/8219/dxdiagbr1.jpg
dr2pepper Novice Member Joined: 10/02/06 Posts: 27	7/16/08 3:45:54 PM#7 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) That could also be one hell of an overclock :)
n25philly Novice Member Joined: 4/23/04 Posts: 1330	7/16/08 5:48:13 PM#8 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Originally posted by appel Yeah if your running Vista and Nvidia, the video card can use the PC ram as well, or something like that. That's not a vista thing it's a hardware setting. Most laptops do that and usually lower end video cards do it. For example if you have a laptop and it says the video memory is 256mb, 99% of the time 128 is dedicated and 128 is taken from the system ram. member of imminst.org
Varlok91 Novice Member Joined: 1/30/07 Posts: 356 "History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it." -Winston Churchill	7/16/08 5:59:57 PM#9 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Originally posted by dr2pepper That could also be one hell of an overclock :) Overclocking doesn't give you more memory. To the OP, usually you can set the shared memory of the video card using the BIOS (at least you can for integrated video cards, never tried a dedicated card). -------------------------------- Desktop - AMD 8450 Tri Core, 3 gigs of DDR2 800 RAM, ATI HD 3200 Graphics, Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit Laptop (Dell Latitude E6400) - Intel P8400, 2 GIGs of RAM, Intel X4500, Windows XP Professional