Available physical memory

50Twuncle

My Laptop runs Win 8.1 and has 8Gb of RAM - However, according to Speccy - has only 4.8Gb available (of 7.89 total) - I am assuming that this is due to Graphics, but can't see any way to reduce shared memory
So am I wasting 3Gb on graphics ?
Any suggestions ?
The BIOS does not allow me to change it...

enfield_freddy

windows 8.1 32 bit or 64 bit? first question


Ps I ran Speccy , it lied to me as well ,


under windows / control panel/system what does it say

Cycrow

im going to assume 64bit, as with 32bit you wouldn't be getting 4.8gb available.

when it says 4.8gb available, is it talking about the total amount of memory available, or whats currently free ?

it sounds like you have 8gb ram, but 3.2gb is currently being used, most likely by windows itself

What does windows itself say ?
also, what does it say is available in task manager

50Twuncle

Cycrow wrote: »

im going to assume 64bit, as with 32bit you wouldn't be getting 4.8gb available.

when it says 4.8gb available, is it talking about the total amount of memory available, or whats currently free ?

it sounds like you have 8gb ram, but 3.2gb is currently being used, most likely by windows itself

What does windows itself say ?
also, what does it say is available in task manager

Yes - 64bit and the Windows just reports 8.0Gb of RAM !!
Where can I discover the amount of RAM shared with video in Windows itself ?
the task manager shows 4.8Gb of useable ram

kwikbreaks

Its not clear to me what figures you are quoting. This is task manager output for my Win 8.1 64bit laptop with 4GB physical memory. Post up your equivalent and point out which value you are querying. Shared graphics memory isn't going to be multi GB



These are the Speccy figures on the same machine...

RAM
Memory slots
Total memory slots 2
Used memory slots 1
Free memory slots 1
Memory
Type DDR3
Size 4096 MBytes
Channels # Single
DRAM Frequency 798.2 MHz
CAS# Latency (CL) 11 clocks
RAS# to CAS# Delay (tRCD) 11 clocks
RAS# Precharge (tRP) 11 clocks
Cycle Time (tRAS) 28 clocks
Command Rate (CR) 1T
Physical Memory
Memory Usage 77 %
Total Physical 3.89 GB
Available Physical 891 MB
Total Virtual 7.89 GB
Available Virtual 3.44 GB
SPD
Number Of SPD Modules 1
Slot #1

If it's the number in RED above that is just memory you are not currently using at all. Not all that surprising if all you have open is a browser and Speccy.

S0litaire

what it sounds like is Windows has carved out a chunk of memory (3.2Gb) and reserved this for the OS use only.

You are seeing what is left of the RAM available (4.8Gb) to other programs.

wongataa

50Twuncle wrote: »

My Laptop runs Win 8.1 and has 8Gb of RAM - However, according to Speccy - has only 4.8Gb available (of 7.89 total) - I am assuming that this is due to Graphics, but can't see any way to reduce shared memory
So am I wasting 3Gb on graphics ?

No you aren't wasting any memory. If there was 3GB of shared memory for graphics Windows would not even see it so Windows would say the total RAM was 5GB of RAM total.

The computer just has 3GB of stuff in the RAM. That's just normal.

[Deleted User]

Control Panel>System.

Look at Installed memory (RAM):

It'll give a total figure and, in brackets, a usable figure.

Mine's 6.00 GB (5.21 GB usable)

50Twuncle

Mine is 8.00 Gb (7.89Gb usable)


RAM
Memory slots
Total memory slots 4
Used memory slots 1
Free memory slots 3
Memory
Type DDR3
Size 8078 MBytes
Channels # Dual
DRAM Frequency 798.7 MHz
CAS# Latency (CL) 11 clocks
RAS# to CAS# Delay (tRCD) 11 clocks
RAS# Precharge (tRP) 11 clocks
Cycle Time (tRAS) 28 clocks
Command Rate (CR) 1T
Physical Memory
Memory Usage 33 %
Total Physical 7.89 GB
Available Physical 5.27 GB
Total Virtual 9.76 GB
Available Virtual 7.14 GB

kwikbreaks

> Mine is 8.00 Gb (7.89Gb usable)
So probably 128MB usedfor graphics
> Available Physical 5.27 GB
and 5.27GB currently unused.

Start an additional browser or some other program and the second number will fall.

All it is really saying is that you didn't need 8GB of memory unless you regularly do something more memory intensive with your machine than you are right now.

50Twuncle

kwikbreaks wrote: »

> Mine is 8.00 Gb (7.89Gb usable)
So probably 128MB usedfor graphics
> Available Physical 5.27 GB
and 5.27GB currently unused.

Start an additional browser or some other program and the second number will fall.

All it is really saying is that you didn't need 8GB of memory unless you regularly do something more memory intensive with your machine than you are right now.

It came with 8Gb RAM !!