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Old 02-20-2008   #2 (permalink)
Colin Barnhorst


 
 

Re: Difference between Physical Memory and the Vista System Memory (Ra

The system properities page is reporting the memory available to user
programs. The BIOS is reserving the remaining for such things as
memory-mapped IO for things like your video card. This is normal. Don't
worry about it.

"DP" <DP@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 4GB DDR SDRAM DIMM ( Two @ Corsair XMS Twin2048-3200c2) on MSI
> 865PE/GNeo2
> Motherboard with a Pentium 4 3.0GHz CPU
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> SiSoft Sandra is indicating Physical memory of four 1GB Dimm SDRAM
> double-bank
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> Vista System page is indicating Memory (Ram) of 3070 MB
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> Why and what is the significance if any?
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