Does max ram of motherboard also count vid card mem.

[grouchpunk08]

Im looking at getting the EVGA x58 SLI LE motherboard, which supports a maximum of 12GB of ram. Does this number include the ram Plus the video card's dedicated Vram? For example, If I were to use 12gb of ram, and a GTX 295 CO-OP edition with 1789MB of VRAM, would the Motherboard Recognize and use all of it? Or does the max include Dedicated VRAM and regular system Ram?
Thanks for any help.

 

[festerovic]

In your example, it would see all 12gb. Windows would only see it if you used the 64 bit version though.

 

[grouchpunk08]

In your example, it would see all 12gb. Windows would only see it if you used the 64 bit version though.

Yeah, I plan on using the 64bit. But with the mobo seeing all 12gb of ram, would it still see the vram on the Video card itself. I guess that was my real question, I didn't explain it well enough. Thanks for your reply tho

 

[gkay09]

The total RAM on the mobo doesnt include the RAM on the graphics card...

Only the OS makes such a calculation...But if you have a 64-bit OS, then you dont have to worry about that also as it would support so much more (2^64 or 16.8 million TB)...

But if you have a 32-bit OS, then the MAX is 4GB total...

 

[grouchpunk08]

Thanks guys, you answered my question perfectly, and within only 2 hours of asking lol. I'm not worried about the OS, I use 64bit. Thanks again guys.