Graphics ram count towards sytem ram?

FlamezFlamez
edited September 2008 in Hardware
Sometime told me that my graphics card ram counts towards my 3.2 gig total of ram in Windows XP 32 bit. Is this true? I have 2 gigs of ram, and 1 gig on my graphics card. Does this mean if I put another 2 gigs into my computer I'll only get like, 200-400 megs out of them?

Thanks

Comments

  • HarudathHarudath Great Britain Icrontian
    edited September 2008
    Yep, for your system to be able to utilize more you'd need to get Vista methinks
  • MrTRiotMrTRiot Northern Ontario Icrontian
    edited September 2008
    It all has to go with wether it's a 32 or a 64 bit OS

    Link with some decent reading: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=554252
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2008
    The OS (Any 32bit OS) can only address 2^32 bits (4,294,967,295) of memory-mapped I/O (MMIO, henceforth). Damn near anything on your computer has an MMIO address; the BIOS, the buses, your VRAM (Which supersedes your DRAM addressing). The computer reserves blocks of MMIO addresses for VRAM, then buses/bridges/BIOS, then DRAM. Your RAM gets all the addressing space left, which is usually 2.5-3.12GB.

    And that's that. You need a 64bit OS to get more.
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