On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 09:37 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Monday 04 June 2007 09:12, primm wrote: > > My mobo info says 'Geforce 6100 with up to 384Mb shared memory'. How > > do I find out how much memory it's taking? Is it RAM it's taking? > > What exactly are you trying to find out? Those 384 MB reside on the > video board itself. By "shared memory" it means this memory can appear > directly in the address space of the host system and be accessed just > like primary RAM. These video boards do not use any of your primary > system RAM, though they do take up address space. This is in contrast > to some mainboard video hardware, which uses system RAM as its > framebuffer and primitive storage. > > Depending on the CPU and mainboard you use, the presence of video RAM in > the system's physical address space may or may not limit the amount of > primary RAM you can actually access. In particular, without a CPU and > mainboard capable of supporting PAE (physical address extension), the > need to bring the video (and possibly other PCI card) RAM into the > 32-bit physical address space may limit usable primary RAM to 3 or 3.5 > GB.
Nope, exactly the opposite, shared video memory means it allocates or reserve system memory (RAM) for the video card. http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=1399&p=2 http://forums.cnet.com/5208-10149_102-0.html?forumID=7&threadID=119317&messageID=1354197 To answer primm's questions: 1. Check the BIOS 2. Yes, it is RAM Regards Rudolf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
