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3amOpsGuy
on July 14, 2012
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Can a 32-bit OS machine use up all 8GB RAM + 20GB ...
>> I'm assuming this is 1000 vs 1024 issue
It'll likely be your graphics card uses a portion of your main RAM for its memory. This is common.
cookiecaper
on July 15, 2012
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I'm not sure this is true for discrete cards. Onboard GPUs will utilize good chunks of system memory (and this is configurable in the system BIOS generally), but discrete cards don't use any afaik.
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It'll likely be your graphics card uses a portion of your main RAM for its memory. This is common.