Physical memory available with installed memory.

[onurduman43]

Hello all,

First of all. my system specs.

-Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 330 @ 2.13GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.1GHz
- Memory: 4096MB RAM
-Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 310M
-Display Memory: 2188 MB
-Dedicated Memory: 466 MB
- Shared Memory: 1722 MB

My computer is Samsung r580/r590.

When I look at my "System Information" , Total Physical Memory is 3.8 gigs but available physical memory is only 1.8. Is this because of the memory dedicated to the graphics driver? Is this a techical issue where one of the ram's installed has gone bad? When it says avaiable physical memory is 1.8, does it mean when I run a game it only has access to the 1.8 gigs of ram because the other 2 gigs is dedicated to graphics? If that is the issue, is this normal? What I understand is, what my computer can run with is only 1.8 gigs of ram where 2 or more is only dedicated to the display driver. How do I fix this?

Thank you.

 

[k1114]

Available is how much is not being used. So you probably have ~2gb used. It's easier to see how much is being used and your total by just opening the task manager. Ctrl+shift+esc

 

[onurduman43]

So the cached is being used and available is how much I can use. Why is 2 GB of ram cached with nothing running other than google chrome?

 

[k1114]

No. Used is used. Cached is cached. Cached is part of available. Total is how much you can use, you can use all 4gb. 2gb is being used at the moment, leaving you 2gb available.

You can ignore the cached amount. Ram should be filled otherwise it's useless empty (the free amount in task manager) so windows caches but this amount is not being used by anything open. Windows leaves files in ram of things you had open before which is usually what cache consists of but it could also preload files so they are already in ram and doesn't need to be loaded.