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Zcythe · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 4:39 pm Post subject: Graphic memory

Hey i was wondering i have 4 gigs of ram and have 32 bit and my graphics card is a 512mb. I was wondering is there a limit to how much my graphics card can use? Because it uses 1.9gb right now, so if added more would it use that?

superweapons · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:00 pm Post subject:

@iTz SWAT
What does that have to do with the topic? Either the topic is stated in a confusing way, or you're just posting exactly that.

@grimripper
If you mean a graphics processor that is pulling system RAM to allocate as its own, then you can change that in the BIOS. It would be pretty retarded to allocate even more system RAM to your GPU, as its ages slower than modern onboard VDRAM (referring to GDDR3 and GDDR5). You wouldn't see much of a performance increase, and most of the time, a game's textures don't take up that much space (when mipmaps are used).

If not, specify what you mean by the question.

iTz SWAT · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 11:11 pm Post subject:

Lol sorry, I didn't read the whole OP post because I thought it was going to be another " How much RAM can my computer see"...
Confused lol...

hcavolsdsadgadsg · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 11:29 pm Post subject:

iTz SWAT · Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 12:51 am Post subject:

For some reason I had read it totally wrong.
I thought he said I have 1.9GB and buying 4GB on a 32Bit OS.
And the video card is 512MB.

So I thought his question was How much Memory can Windows See...
So I said 3.0-3.3GB as a guess...

Zcythe · Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 5:24 am Post subject:

Sorry, let me rephrase I mean i have 4Gigs of ram on a 32 bit os, and I know the graphics card uses ram that i have left, so I was wondering if i added say another 2 gigs would it use more than 1.9 like it already does? or no.

Imitazion · Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:59 am Post subject:

I might be wrong, but the system takes use of 3.3GB RAM when you have 4GB, and then there's something with the GPU RAM that makes it so the system pulls all the 4GB it can handle.

Again, I might be wrong.

hcavolsdsadgadsg · Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:17 am Post subject:

Zcythe · Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 1:02 pm Post subject:

Argh i think im confusing people, Im asking if i add ram will my gpu use it? because i only have 32 bit i figured it cant use any more ram. So will my gpu take the extra ram if i added another 2 gigs?

Imitazion · Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 2:39 pm Post subject:

Oh.
I would recommend changing to x64, if you to get full advantage of your RAM, but I don't know what programs you're running, so don't take my word immediately.

But, to be honest, I don't know if your GPU can be better if you upgrade your RAM, because, if it was like that, you could just upgrade to x64, then buy a shitload of RAM, and then still have a awesome GPU that was new in 2007.

iTz SWAT · Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 5:32 pm Post subject:

When you say upgrade Ram do you mean you going to add 2GB of RAM totaling 6GB or adding another graphics card that's 2gb totaling 4GB of GPU memory?