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    1024MB Ram + 7900GS -- 1MB still reserved?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by shinji257, Nov 4, 2006.

  1. shinji257

    shinji257 Notebook Deity

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    Does anyone have a clue here as to why when I got a 7900GS that there is still 1 or 2 MB of ram reserved? Just curious really. I checked the bios and it reports 1024MB detected and 1023MB available.


    P.S. - This laptop benched higher on 3DMark05 than my desktop machine. Hmmm....
     
    shinji257, Nov 4, 2006
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    The first 640k are always reserved by the BIOS. I think that's the reason, at least.
     
    mini, Nov 6, 2006
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    correct .
     
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    Yea. But even 3dmark05 though some memory was "reserved". It reported 1024 installed and 1022 available. Oh well. I check to see what XP says when I finish reinstalling it (cleaning out the junk that got installed by default). It really isn't that big of a deal. I guess it would be a bigger one if it said something like 64MB was reserved or something.
     
    shinji257, Nov 7, 2006
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    The 1-2 Mb is still reserved, even for 3DMark.

    It's certainly not used for video memory in any ase.
     
    mini, Nov 7, 2006
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