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    need an np9280 / 12GB RAM owner to help!

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by ganzonomy, Jul 17, 2009.

  1. ganzonomy

    ganzonomy Notebook Deity

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    (you can laugh)

    if someone with a np9280 with 12GB DDR3 can chime in, or another sager np8662 or a np5797 owner can chime in on this, I'd appreciate it. Here's what I wonder. When you have a LOT of RAM (> or = to 8GB), does vista use a lot of the "gaming graphics" and give an absurd amount of memory? My sager np8662 with 8GB RAM says that 4606MB RAM is available as "gaming memory", in spite of only having a 1024MB GTX 260m. I'm hoping this isn't a windows error and 3,582MB RAM for gaming is being used when a lot of the time I'm not gaming.

    Jason
     
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    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    games never seems to use more than 2GB of RAM... let alone 4GB or 8GB.

    I have been testing a D900F with 6GB of RAM... still can not use it all in gaming or even 3D modeling.

    I have only used up to 5GB doing some After Effects...

    so a typical gamer wont even notice the extra RAM at all.
     
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    ahh, but what about like "total gaming memory", mine says 4606MB when it combines the video that's dedicated, and what's shared from the system. I was wondering if those with 12GB or 16GB could share their total gaming memory, just to make sure it's not a screwup on mine.
     
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    thats has more to do with your memory paging (pagefile) on your HDD than it does on the RAM.
     
    Gophn, Jul 18, 2009
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    I made this mistake with my old HP laptop. It came with a "512mb 7000m geforce". I thought "wow, 512mb this must be a great card". Then I added more ram, and my graphics ram went over 1gb. However, sadly I learned that this didn't help performance at all and my graphics card was garbage (32 bit with 0 shaders).

    The 260m and 280m are great cards nonetheless, but I wouldn't put any stock into the "extra" vram that's showing up from adding more memory.
     
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    Not quite sure what you're asking. Are you asking about whether the system really uses that additional 3,582MB of RAM for video purposes when you're gaming, or are you asking about whether or not that 3,582MB of RAM is available for other applications to use, say for example several mammoth spreadsheets, when you're not gaming?

    If it's the second, then the answer is that the amount of system RAM that is provisionally allocated to video is free for the taking if any other app needs the memory and it's not actually being used at the moment by the video system.
     
    Shyster1, Jul 19, 2009
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