- Jul 31, 2015
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This is my PC. Got it two days ago and expended most time configuring tweaking and even doing some OC (nothing fancy, I used the built-in wizard).
The only thing I could not fully figure out yet is why I see 12GB RAM and not the 16GB ram...
Following some research I see plenty of people that had the same issue and posted the same question in many other sites. I read a lot of answers and it seems it may be the video card reserving memory from the system (I am mainly trusting what the user dragonlord wrote here.
CPU-Z and Speccy are showing 16gb so that may be the case.
Next step I took is accessing the sys info from Nvidia. The key information is the following:
Total available graphic memory: 10gb.
Dedicated video memory: 4gb GDRR5
System video memory: 0
Shared system memory: 6gb
And this is the point where I am puzzled. Does the "Shared System memory" means that the graphics card reserved system memory to the point that the BIOS is not even showing it? Is this normal?
I mean, the DRAM status is totally not showing the dimm as you can see here. It was the same before the OC.
I know I may need to check if I have a faulty one but in such case I would not expect CPU-Z and Speccy to see it, so I doubt it.
At this point I am 50% thinking this may be normal (specially with so many others posting similar experiences) and there is nothing I should do, and the other 50% toward continue researching and see what may be the problem.
Task Manager is showing the same as the BIOS.
Any advice is very welcome.
The only thing I could not fully figure out yet is why I see 12GB RAM and not the 16GB ram...
Following some research I see plenty of people that had the same issue and posted the same question in many other sites. I read a lot of answers and it seems it may be the video card reserving memory from the system (I am mainly trusting what the user dragonlord wrote here.
CPU-Z and Speccy are showing 16gb so that may be the case.
Next step I took is accessing the sys info from Nvidia. The key information is the following:
Total available graphic memory: 10gb.
Dedicated video memory: 4gb GDRR5
System video memory: 0
Shared system memory: 6gb
And this is the point where I am puzzled. Does the "Shared System memory" means that the graphics card reserved system memory to the point that the BIOS is not even showing it? Is this normal?
I mean, the DRAM status is totally not showing the dimm as you can see here. It was the same before the OC.
I know I may need to check if I have a faulty one but in such case I would not expect CPU-Z and Speccy to see it, so I doubt it.
At this point I am 50% thinking this may be normal (specially with so many others posting similar experiences) and there is nothing I should do, and the other 50% toward continue researching and see what may be the problem.
Task Manager is showing the same as the BIOS.
Any advice is very welcome.
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