12-31-2009, 06:57 AM
Quote:Well I just installed the new card and it shows the same thing.
I have 4GB of system RAM and the videocard has 1GB, but Windows shows 3.5GB. It is a mystery.
As a humorous sidenote, my 7 year old son saw me unpackage the HD4890 and said "Wow that is big! It's bigger than my foot! Not your foot though, because you have big feet."
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I'm pretty sure that's because Windows uses up 1-gig for itself and its paging file. Mine does that also and I have four gigs. Even with SLI and two PCI-video cards at 512 each, or one video card at 512, 1-gig is always in use by Windows. I'm pretty sure if I had no video card but the standard on the motherboard, Windows would still consume 1-gig of it.
Makes me wonder how computer with less than a gig of memory get by. I don't know enough about this myself to comment about that.
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