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Originally posted by Freaky Guy
i have 256 mb ram, but my comp shows just 229 mb...wassup wid this?

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That means some of it is built in..i got the same...i supposively have 512 and it shows 480.

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Originally posted by Sunshine
That means some of it is built in..i got the same...i supposively have 512 and it shows 480.

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thats probably because of a 32MB integrated gfx card or sumthing

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Originally posted by Lee Jeffery

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Originally posted by Sunshine
That means some of it is built in..i got the same...i supposively have 512 and it shows 480.

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thats probably because of a 32MB integrated gfx card or sumthing

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yup, and the gfx card then steals some of your memory, because it doesn't have any built-in..

yah, its shared or something, but earlier it showed 248 mb and suddenly, its 229 mb, weird

I recently bought a 512 ddr ram (400mhz) stick, my computer runs so much smoother now and i can finally play doom 3! evan though not very smootly but o well. I heard a good explanation ( if thats the word) of how ram and hardrives work. Picture your hardrive as a garage and the bigger it is the more space you can hold now picture ram as the car the faster thw ram is the smoother and faster the cats pulls in there not the exact words I heard the explanation was a lot betta then i explaned but i thought it was interesting how they put it.

That's a nice explanation, but then you should still explain processors It'd be more like the proc being the engine, and the ram being the seats? And then the trunk would be the hdd? Mobo being the frame and PSU the fuel-tank

Why don't people just learn the technical details and then they won't need these stupid analogies to understand it?

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Originally posted by C3PO
I recently bought a 512 ddr ram (400mhz) stick, my computer runs so much smoother now and i can finally play doom 3! evan though not very smootly but o well. I heard a good explanation ( if thats the word) of how ram and hardrives work. Picture your hardrive as a garage and the bigger it is the more space you can hold now picture ram as the car the faster thw ram is the smoother and faster the cats pulls in there not the exact words I heard the explanation was a lot betta then i explaned but i thought it was interesting how they put it.

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I think that would just confuse people

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Originally posted by Segosa
Why don't people just learn the technical details and then they won't need these stupid analogies to understand it?

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because technical details scare them.. for the common user, computer == intel == windows == msn == kazaa ==

I'll just go ahead and have a shot at explaining what RAM is as well.

Ok, so imagine that you're writing an essay, but you have a limited volcabulary. So you get a dictionary (this being the computer harddrive) and start writing the essay using this. But you quickly realize that you keep looking up the same words again and again, so you devise a new solution: Writing down your commonly used words in a quickly-accessable notebook (this being the comptuer RAM).

But wait... suddenly your notebook starts to fill up, so you decide to put some sheets of paper from the notebook back into the dictionary (let's just say underneath the front cover). This was supposed to illustrate what the harddrive's page file does... It's simply a slow backup solution for the RAM. So if you're browsing the net in Internet Explorer and then open a game, the game will need so much RAM that Windows will have to free up some RAM by swapping Internet Explorer into the pagefile.

Comprendes?