12-29-2009, 09:49 PM
Quote:Yeah, that's what I was getting at. I have 4GB RAM, but the 512MB RAM on my old 9600GT brings it down to 3.5GB of addressable RAM with a 32-bit OS. The new 7890 has 1GB of RAM, so it would potentially bring it down to 3GB. That slashes my RAM by 25%.
I don't think my RAM usage has ever climbed anywhere near 3GB, so I doubt I'll notice it.
I guess I'll update when the new card comes in.
The mapping is being done by the BIOS. You can set the BIOS to not use the video memory as system memory, thus the reasoning behind Video Memory != System Memory. The AGP apeture (yes, I know it's PCI, but they didn't change the name of it) can be set to 0 which means the OS doesn't see the video memory, just the system memory while the video will still happily use it's own memory as needed.
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Einstein said Everything is Relative.
Heisenberg said Everything is Uncertain.
Therefore, everything is relatively uncertain.
Einstein said Everything is Relative.
Heisenberg said Everything is Uncertain.
Therefore, everything is relatively uncertain.