Ideal ram for Intel HD 4600

[Vinnie Beer]

I have intel i5 4570 , 4gb dd3 ram and gigabyte h87m-d3h motherboard . How much memory should I set for the intel hd 4600 to use if I don't want to play a lot of games but use mostly photoshop and illustrator ?

 

[sweenytodd]

DVMT (Dynamic Video Memory Technology) automatically allocates vram from your system ram based of the demands per application and Intel does that. I think there is no way to set a static allocation of ram per application. http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-029090.htm#howmuch

 

[Daniel Harvey]

Presuming that you are changing it in your bios (I have the same motherboard, CPU, and graphics card but 8gb ram ), I gave mine 512mb, I found that 1024mb was a bit unstable as a few programs crashed every now and then. anyway 512 improved on the 32mb that was set by default

 

[logainofhades]

You really aren't going to be gaming much at all with the IGP. I would recommend more ram for sure. 4gb is pretty low amount for Photoshop. You will want at least 8gb. Any gaming at all, you will want a dedicated graphics card.