[SOLVED] How to Increase VRAM on a HP Pavilion.

[ejectedcasings]

So the biggest problem for my computer right now is the lack of VRAM. The Radeon R7 IGPU inside it SHOULD perform well enough, but it's being bottlenecked by the ridiculous amount of VRAM. I know it entails going into the BIOS, (and I have already done that), but I cannot find any video settings in the BIOS, much less where I can increase VRAM. I would appreciate a guide as to how I can do it.

SYSTEM SPECS:
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8 gb of ram
Willow 2 Motherboard

Help would be appreciated! Thanks!

 

[bignastyid]

Many OEM bioses use a dynamic mode for shard vram allocation and have no option to change it, but even if you could it really wouldn't help. The gpu in your APU has no dedicated vram, it's vram comes from shared system memory. When the vram fills up it's overflow goes to system ram. This would drop the performance of a dedicated GPU that was running faster ram, but your APU is already using system ram as vram so there isn't really any performance to be lost there.

The real problem with the igpu's performance is the slow ram, with an APU you want fast ram to help out the gpu's performance, your OEM system only supports DDR4 2400 so thats going to impact performance and there's nothing you can do about it. Even if you upgraded to faster ram the board would limit it to 2400 speeds.

In short of you want better graphics performance you need a dedicated gpu.

 

[TJ Hooker]

The Radeon R7 IGPU inside it SHOULD perform well enough, but it's being bottlenecked by the ridiculous amount of VRAM.

Perform well enough for what? Most integrated graphics (including that one) are usually only good for playing games on minimum settings, and allocating more VRAM isn't going to change that.

 

[ejectedcasings]

What about this one in terms of DEDICATED graphics?
Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1050 2GB D5 Video Card *not sure why you tried to make that a hyperlink, but I fixed it*

 

[TJ Hooker]

Link doesn't work.

 

[Zerk2012]

Look for a low profile GTX 1030 only uses 30 watts it should work.

 

[bignastyid]

The GTX 1050 is much better than your current igpu.

 

[TJ Hooker]

Your PC only has a 180W PSU. Nvidia recommends 300W minimum for a 1050. A 1050 only draws ~75W at most, so in theory your PSU should be able to handle it, but we don't know what quality it is or how much current it can supply on the 12V rail.

 

[ejectedcasings]

Okay so a better power supply too?