Thread: How come RAM is taken away for video cards? Because of my videocard's VRAM?
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Old January 17th 16, 04:41 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware
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Default How come RAM is taken away for video cards? Because of my videocard's VRAM?
On 01/17/2016 03:31 AM, Ant wrote:
Like I have 3 GB of RAM, but Windows show 2.5 GB. I was told because it
is a shared memory?

Thank you in advance.


If your machine has on-board video, there is a BIOS option as to how
much RAM you want to assign to it.

If you have added a video card of your own, there is no need to assign
RAM to the ob-board card so you can go into the BIOS settings and adjust
assigned RAM down to zero.