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    How to tell Go 7400 is sharing?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by windowsrookie, Aug 23, 2007.

  1. windowsrookie

    windowsrookie Notebook Consultant

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    Anybody know how I can tell if my Go 7400 is sharing RAM and how much it's sharing?
     
    windowsrookie, Aug 23, 2007
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    64mb dedicated the rest is shared
     
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    No, that's not what I asked, and it's wrong.

    The Go 7400 in my dv6000t has 128MB dedicated.

    I just want to be able to check how much it's sharing.
     
    windowsrookie, Aug 23, 2007
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    The review of your laptop on this site says 128MB + 128MB, so at most 128MB but will only use when needed. As to how much at any particular time you could try and ascertain in certain ways but why?
     
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    I already knew that. I just want to know how much of my RAM it's using when I'm running certain programs.
     
    windowsrookie, Aug 23, 2007
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    OK for a guy asking a question you sure do know a lot. That said I will try again and if it does not help be nice to me. "Ctrl + Alt + Del" brings up "Task Manager" click "performance" tab shows RAM used at bottom. Start a program see how it changes.
     
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    No, I want to see how much RAM my GPU is using with certain programs. Not how much RAM my programs are using.

    If I wanted to see how much RAM each program was using I would just monitor it in my processes.


    Does anybody have an answer to the original question I asked?
     
    windowsrookie, Aug 23, 2007
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    You are getting obtuse! Here is my new answer, NO!
     
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    As stated in my first question all I want to do is monitor how much RAM my GPU is using.
     
    windowsrookie, Aug 23, 2007
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    And you can't do that, you really can't their is no way unless the GPU monitors the RAM it takes, clearly RAM usage is of no help because because who knows why or where it is being used, even in a game the RAM used is not just just by GPU, so the answer is NO, I understand your question and have answered if I'm wrong (I am not) let someone show me. New question, why do you care.
     
    powerpack, Aug 23, 2007
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    Ok now for some helpful input. Now if you are using windows XP as your graphics card wants more ram it removes it from what windows can use and if you go into system and see how much ram it says you have installed it will say less than the amount of your physical sticks. Say you have 2 gig of ram and teh graphics card is using 64 Mb it should say 2048 - 64 = 1984Mb.

    In windows vista this might work or it might not becasue Vista takes control of how much ram it wants to give your graphics card and I'm not sure if that method will work. Could be worth a go though.

    Hope that helps
     
    BenArcher, Aug 24, 2007
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    your lucky mine shares 1791mb system memory :D thats on top of 256mb dedicated memory :eek:

    thats vista for you :p
     

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