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Originally posted by lou_habs
is Hyundai (Smilie)

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thats a korean car company. haha...
unfortunately.... i have a laptop so i cant

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Originally posted by damm-o

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Originally posted by lou_habs
is Hyundai (Smilie)

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thats a korean car company. haha...

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That's why he said it

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Originally posted by [MR]
well i have the same problem as well and the video card isnt integrated with the motherboard and i have 2 256's which should make 512 but it shows like 480...

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Even if you are using a proper graphics card, if the motherboard has integrated graphics, there will be a portion of system RAM allocated to the integrated graphics. You can go into your motherboard settings and tell it to allocate 0 MB of system RAM to the integrated graphics.

Hi,

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Are there any problems with having 2 different amount of RAM?  For example, a 256mb and 512mb. Total 768.

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For most computers in use today, no.  It's a pretty safe bet that includes yours. 

With that said many, of the same computers can derive some performance benefit (dual channel mode or at least interleaving) when the memory is installed in even matched pairs, so you should try to do it when you can.  If it's not economical to do so, don't worry about it. 

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I have 512mb's of RAM, but it says I have 480mb's of RAM? Why is this? Something to do with my graphics card

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Correct.  Graphics requires RAM.  Chipsets with integrated GPU use part of main system memory for it, which takes it away from all other uses.

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if its onboard, its not a card and doesn't have its own ram...

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While generally true, there's nothing magic about placing components on a card rather than soldering them to the board.  There have been some motherboards that had a full-blown separate graphics chipset and a set amount of video RAM incorporated on the board, but yes -- that's quite rare.

Thanks guys

If you have an integrated video card, it'll take your system ram as mentioned above. However, if you install a PCI or AGP video card, make sure that you set your BIOS to search the AGP or the PCI slot first to look for the video card. Usually if you install a seperate video card, the BIOS shuts off the integraded one, freeing up that memory back to Windows.

In some BIOS' you can also disable the onboard video altogether.

You can also have different speeds and sizes of RAM in PC's these days. Just as long as you don't try to mix DDR, DDR2 and DDR3 in the same PC. That won't work! LOL