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#1 matttman
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i have 4GB of OCZ Reaper RAM

in the BIOS, it says i have 4GB, but in the system controal pannel, it says i have 2,5?

where is the rest of my ram?

is my 9800 GX2 FXF eatiing it all up?

i have a Q67000 (2,66 GHz)

780i motherboard

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#2 Sordidus
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That's because your OS is 32bit, you need a 64bit OS.
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#3 dudy80
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Yep, 32bit windows wont read all that.
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#4 Sonnyboy4031
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If you install allot of things. it will take up ram memory slowly.

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#5 albi321
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Are you sure its 2.5? a 32bit OS should read 3.5.
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#6 webstaxero
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If you install allot of things. it will take up ram memory slowly.

Sonnyboy4031

I don't think so.

It's unusual that only 2.5GB show up, usually at least 3GB show up w/4GB on a 32bit OS. Try a 64-bit OS, and see if all 4GB show up.

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#7 loco145
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The other 512MB or so in your 32bit word are being used for your video memory of your 9800.
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#8 Captain__Tripps
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Are you sure its 2.5? a 32bit OS should read 3.5.albi321

A 32-bit os will see a maximum of 4gb, it depends on whats in your pc... He has 1gb of video ram (gx2, presumably both cards memory need to be mapped) , so he would see a maximum of 3gb, but obviously other things are using up another have gig or so.

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#9 Sonnyboy4031
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I'm using a 64 bit and my 4 gigs shows 2.5 to 2.7

However I also have Crysis installed and few other programgs but nothing that uses a gig. Cryis uses two so inless I have a leaky ram then it does take up the ram memory.

I use a 9600 GT as my Vid card.

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#10 Captain__Tripps
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Shows 2.5 to 2.7 where? What does it say under task manager/performance physical memory, total ?
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#11 ish27
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I have 4GB on two of my computers, and both of them show 4GB even though they're both running Vista Home Premium x86. I never understood why my computers didn't experience this problem :?
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#12 Captain__Tripps
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It shows 4GB in system, but if you look at task manager I doubt you have 4gb of system ram available for use.
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#13 OmegaTau
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That's because your OS is 32bit, you need a 64bit OS.Sordidus

yes your correct sir you win a prize

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#14 OmegaTau
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I'm using a 64 bit and my 4 gigs shows 2.5 to 2.7

However I also have Crysis installed and few other programgs but nothing that uses a gig. Cryis uses two so inless I have a leaky ram then it does take up the ram memory.

I use a 9600 GT as my Vid card.

the only thing is that your memory is being shared with something

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#15 Sonnyboy4031
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Shows 2.5 to 2.7 where? What does it say under task manager/performance physical memory, total ?Captain__Tripps

Total memory 4 Gigs

memory advailable 2.?

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#16 Captain__Tripps
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[QUOTE="Captain__Tripps"]Shows 2.5 to 2.7 where? What does it say under task manager/performance physical memory, total ?Sonnyboy4031

Total memory 4 Gigs

memory advailable 2.?

Yeah, thats correct. So whats the problem? How many things do you have open? Background apps/processes also take memory.

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#17 dudy80
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I'm using a 64 bit and my 4 gigs shows 2.5 to 2.7

However I also have Crysis installed and few other programgs but nothing that uses a gig. Cryis uses two so inless I have a leaky ram then it does take up the ram memory.

I use a 9600 GT as my Vid card.

Sonnyboy4031

Huh? 4 gigs should just show as 4 gigs in a 64bit os...