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Why is usable RAM less than total RAM?

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 202621657 views
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My girlfriend bought a laptop last week. It's a core 2 duo with 4 GB We installed vista 64bit, and one of the first things we did was right click on "My computer" to see gthe properties. Immediately we noticed something strange about her RAM, the line said: Installed memory (RAM): 4,00 GB (3,68 GB …

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The usual reason for this is shared ram with video. Check in the BIOS and see if you can see / set how much memory the on board video uses - however I doubt it will be as much as 1GB and not sure where the rest can be (unless you have any sort of we…

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