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How come RAM is taken away for video cards? Because of my videocard's VRAM?



 
 
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Old January 17th 16, 09:31 AM posted to alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia
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Default How come RAM is taken away for video cards? Because of my videocard's VRAM?

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.
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