Brandon17

I don't normally put too much thought into making note of Customer Service interactions if they go alright, but I have one for PIA. (I work in Customer Support, so I appreciate this even more!) I created a ticket last night (Saturday at about midnight, PDT) and I got a reply back this morning at 4:30 AM. I had renewed a subscription on an old account so I wanted to get a refund. They offered me two options, one was a refund and another was to merge my two account's 3 year sub into 6 years. At 11:20, I opted for the refund and within 4 minutes they said they they would process my refund. 5 minutes later after my email (11:25) I got an email from Paypal that my $79 was refunded and is available to spend on the 17th of April. Fantastic response time, plus its on a weekend, and the resolution is exactly what I wanted. I should note that my mistake purchase occurred only a few days ago, which is well within their 30 day refund. I have to give credit when credit is due... Great job PIA! (I can post screenshots if anyone cares )

Ya thats the problem. I havnt seen any setting on bios that would fix this. I think on ASUS boards there is one.

You are correct. Both are 1080p. The most VRAM I use at full load while gaming is about 6-7 GB with max settings on games. So i still don't run out of VRAM on the GPU. I need to find a way to disable this on the bios or something but I do not think this is an option on gigabyte boards?

24 inches.

This actually is the exact solution I would need which I have looked for in the past but I cannot seem to find it on my gigabyte BIOS/UEFI. And yes I have tried disabling the onboard GPU in the past with no luck. (It might be turned off right not actually) If anyone has the exact location on their Z390 Gigabyte motherboard I would be more than happy to take another look with a specific location as I have spent hours and hours on this.

Hi and thanks for everyone's responses. While I know the 2070 super has 8 Gigs of VRAM, the problem is that something is also reallocating an ADDITIONAL 8 Gigs of DDR4 to make a combined 16 gigabytes of usable GPU memory. (I have edited my post to include this information. Sorry for not providing enough information) @Bombastinator I am plugging my 2 monitors into the GPU directly.

Hey so I have had this problem where my system is allocating 8 GB of system ram to my video card. I have had this issue with both my GTX 960 (4 GB) card and my brand new 2070 super. I know this is a feature to prevent windows/games from running out of VRAM but it is ALWAYS stealing 8 gigs of ram no matter how much VRAM is being used, whether I'm in a game or not. I have had to get an extra 16 GB (total of 32 GB) to compensate as I was at 90-95% ram usage even if I just had some chrome tabs open. TO CLARIFY, THE GPU HAS 8 GIGABYTES OF VRAM ON THE CARD ITSELF AND THERE IS AN ADDITIONAL 8 GIGABYTES THAT IS BEING "BORROWED" FROM SYSTEM MEMORY FOR A TOTAL OF 16 GIGABYTES OF GPU RAM. I thought about reaching out to you amazing people as Linus read out a comment during one of his recent streams/vids about this and he wasn't even sure if this was a thing but I assure you it is as I am in the exact same boat. I will list my specs for my system BEFORE and AFTER my recent upgrade. BEFORE MOTHERBOARD: Gigabyte Z390 ultra CPU: Intel 9900K @ 5 GHz GPU: 960 (4GB) EVGA RAM/MEMORY: 16 GB corsair DDR4 3200 (RGB) POWER SUPPLY: Evga 750 SSD/M.2: Samsung 970 Evo 500gb AFTER MOTHERBOARD: Gigabyte Z390 ultra CPU: Intel 9900K @ 5 GHz GPU: Aorus 2070 Super (NEW) RAM/MEMORY: 32 GB corsair DDR4 3200 (RGB) (NEW) POWER SUPPLY: Evga 750 SSD/M.2: Samsung 970 Evo 500 GB I also attached a picture of my Task Manager view of my GPU tab ANY help would be great thanks!!!!

Whats this "List" I hear of?? -------------------------------------------------------------------- i9-9900k 5.1 GHz @ 1.4V