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Got a new system, somthing bugging me

Sky427Sky427 Member UncommonPosts: 99
in Hardware

So I bought a new system today errr..yesterday 4am now and decided to go to system requierments labs to see it say "PASS" and it did boy was I happy I scrolled down and looked processor check, hardrive check, video card check but wait! My video card has 1.7 gigs of memory on it?! what the heck? -run dxdiag it too says I have 1.7 gigs of memory on that thing now its only suppose to have 512 on it (8500 GT) am I going crazy or is there somthing more to this?

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  • Gamefreek333Gamefreek333 Member Posts: 166

    Who cares, you could probably run games really nicely. Haha

  • SgtFrogSgtFrog Member Posts: 5,001

    dxdiag plz

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  • appelappel Member Posts: 53

    Yeah if your running Vista and Nvidia,  the video card can use the PC ram as well, or something like that. 

  • VortigonVortigon Member UncommonPosts: 723

    That is strange, I wouldn't worry too much, as long as it's not a bios problem with the card it should be fine.

    Obviously, you only have 512mb memory though :)

  • Sky427Sky427 Member UncommonPosts: 99
    Originally posted by appel


    Yeah if your running Vista and Nvidia,  the video card can use the PC ram as well, or something like that. 

    This makes sense, didnt think about that

    http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/8219/dxdiagbr1.jpg

  • dr2pepperdr2pepper Member UncommonPosts: 30

    That could also be one hell of an overclock :)

  • n25phillyn25philly Member Posts: 1,317
    Originally posted by appel


    Yeah if your running Vista and Nvidia,  the video card can use the PC ram as well, or something like that. 

     

    That's not a vista thing it's a hardware setting.  Most laptops do that and usually lower end video cards do it.  For example if you have a laptop and it says the video memory is 256mb, 99% of the time 128 is dedicated and 128 is taken from the system ram.

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  • Varlok91Varlok91 Member Posts: 396
    Originally posted by dr2pepper


    That could also be one hell of an overclock :)

    Overclocking doesn't give you more memory.

    To the OP, usually you can set the shared memory of the video card using the BIOS (at least you can for integrated video cards, never tried a dedicated card).

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