ram sizes

[iMav]

my father told me tht the rams in 2 of the office pcs was showing wierd nos. ... i disagreed and he has brought me a the sizes wriiten on the paper as:

1. 240 MB
2. 228,848 KB ... afaik .... it shud be 256 or 512 or multiple of 8

 

[s18000rpm]

mine's 254MB
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my cousin's lappy also shows 240MB

 

[Arsenal_Gunners]

mine shows 1024mb.Nothing weird.

 

[iMav]

yeh kya ho raha hai ... ... bole toh abhi tak jo padha sab galat tha ....wtf

 

[Gaurav]

see it depends, mine shows 504MB RAM, but i know i have a 512MB stick. the remaining is consumed for video acceleration or some other tasks by the Operating System.

 

[Arsenal_Gunners]

^^Only for video acceleration.

 

[iMav]

arre how tht so ... it shud show the ram u have in ... consumed for other purposes is another thing

 

[Gaurav]

It shows you the total which is available for windows for various other tasks.

 

[ApoorvKhatreja]

If you have the turned silent boot mode off from your BIOS, you can see the total memory while your computer starts. It inlcudes the main memory + shared memory (i.e. for video acceleration).

 

[shantanu]

like that coz 2 4 8 32 64 128 or 256 mb can be shared as many of us know that,,this is a bios feature and all devices are controlled by that only so, Windows get Ram sizes by BIOS after sharing

 

[iMav]

then y is my ram being shared ... i wud love for it to b shared somewhr for better performance

 

[shantanu]

its shared for Video accelleration , if it wont be shared then how will your system work without any accelleration for VIDEO performance.

Many onboards share only 2 mb and make it to 64 .

it depends on chipset..

BUT THATS VERY LESS WHAT IS SHARED..

 

[iMav]

arre par my pc showing full 512 and has been as far as my memory goes while using a computer

 

[shantanu]

cant understand ???

 

[iMav]

meaining .. my pc is showing 512 ... my previous pc showed 64 and the 1 b4 tht 32 ... y no ram from my ram is being shared

 

[Arsenal_Gunners]

do you have a gfx card.

 

[shantanu]

many mobos dont share it by default as said by ^ vimal check in the BIOS for extra memory sharing or allocation feature ..by default your Onboard is of 2 4 or max. 8 mb MOSTLY 2

 

[s18000rpm]

no ram from my ram is being shared

btw r u usin a gfx. card?

 

[iMav]

oops ya i forgot abt my fx 5200 and my sis 6326

 

[s18000rpm]

dont the RAM sharing apply for Onboard gfx. card & with exception of some dedicated gfx. card (nvidia's TC series)

well mav3, ur system RAM is not shared.