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vinnyt · **Post subject:** Weird Graphics Card **Posted:** Fri Mar 09, 2012 2:54 am

So I have this Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTX graphics card.
The one I have says 1510 mb in dxdiag but when i googled it only 768 mb models were available.
Also, for some reason it only says 768 mb dedicated memory even though I have 1510 mb.

rayle · **Post subject:** Re: Weird Graphics Card **Posted:** Fri Mar 09, 2012 3:13 am

Chances are its sharing memory with your system RAM. While it has 768mb dedicated (Card mounted) memory, it is also borrowing some system RAM for a little extra juice. If you're running Windows 7, open System Properties. Chances are your System RAM will read something like "2.00GB (1.36GB avaliable)". This means the graphics card is sharing it

vinnyt · **Post subject:** Re: Weird Graphics Card **Posted:** Fri Mar 09, 2012 3:44 am

rayle wrote:

Chances are its sharing memory with your system RAM. While it has 768mb dedicated (Card mounted) memory, it is also borrowing some system RAM for a little extra juice. If you're running Windows 7, open System Properties. Chances are your System RAM will read something like "2.00GB (1.36GB avaliable)". This means the graphics card is sharing it

It doesnt say that. It just says 2.00 gb

zinamo · **Post subject:** Re: Weird Graphics Card **Posted:** Fri Mar 09, 2012 12:16 pm

Have you tried to gather info with some specific utility such as everest ultimate?

pizzaboy192 · **Post subject:** Re: Weird Graphics Card **Posted:** Fri Mar 09, 2012 6:42 pm

zinamo wrote:

Have you tried to gather info with some specific utility such as everest ultimate?

Or the free utility GPU-Z?

vinnyt · **Post subject:** Re: Weird Graphics Card **Posted:** Sat Mar 10, 2012 2:07 am

pizzaboy192 wrote:

zinamo wrote:

Have you tried to gather info with some specific utility such as everest ultimate?

Or the free utility GPU-Z?

which one is better?

Hrimfaxi · **Post subject:** Re: Weird Graphics Card **Posted:** Sat Mar 10, 2012 7:25 am

vinnyt wrote:

which one is better?

GPU-Z.

It's sharing system RAM, very common with newer video cards. My 8400GS which has 512MB reports ~700MB in Windows.

zinamo · **Post subject:** Re: Weird Graphics Card **Posted:** Sat Mar 10, 2012 9:27 am

pizzaboy192 wrote:

Or the free utility GPU-Z?

Yes, I forgot about it :-)

Fullmetal691 · **Post subject:** Re: Weird Graphics Card **Posted:** Thu May 17, 2012 6:54 am

All?(Most) Graphics cards just share Memory with the system, even if they have dedicated memory. My Quadro 2000M has 2GB dedicated, but Shares a ton of ram with my laptop (I've seen my system report 9GB total Ram available to the graphics card)

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