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02-20-2008
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| | Difference between Physical Memory and the Vista System Memory (Ra 4GB DDR SDRAM DIMM ( Two @ Corsair XMS Twin2048-3200c2) on MSI 865PE/GNeo2 Motherboard with a Pentium 4 3.0GHz CPU SiSoft Sandra is indicating Physical memory of four 1GB Dimm SDRAM double-bank Vista System page is indicating Memory (Ram) of 3070 MB Why and what is the significance if any? |
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02-20-2008
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| | 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 news:45C805FB-9A4C-4D58-980A-C85477229937@xxxxxx Quote: > 4GB DDR SDRAM DIMM ( Two @ Corsair XMS Twin2048-3200c2) on MSI > 865PE/GNeo2 > Motherboard with a Pentium 4 3.0GHz CPU > > SiSoft Sandra is indicating Physical memory of four 1GB Dimm SDRAM > double-bank > > Vista System page is indicating Memory (Ram) of 3070 MB > > Why and what is the significance if any? > > > > |
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02-20-2008
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| | Re: Difference between Physical Memory and the Vista System Memory (Ra Here is a good KB article on the issue. Your system is reserving the 1 GB of memory addresses to be used by hardware cards/interfaces such as your graphics card which have their on onboard memory and regretfully the 1GB is not available to your system. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605/en-us "DP" <DP@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:45C805FB-9A4C-4D58-980A-C85477229937@xxxxxx Quote: > 4GB DDR SDRAM DIMM ( Two @ Corsair XMS Twin2048-3200c2) on MSI > 865PE/GNeo2 > Motherboard with a Pentium 4 3.0GHz CPU > > SiSoft Sandra is indicating Physical memory of four 1GB Dimm SDRAM > double-bank > > Vista System page is indicating Memory (Ram) of 3070 MB > > Why and what is the significance if any? > > > > |
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