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Hey guys. I was looking in my graphics properties thing and saw my "Total Available Graphics Memory" was 6877MB. The card I have is only 3072MB. Apparently I have 3805MB from Shared System Memory. What does that mean? I still have 8GB like I should. I have no memory allocated to video in my BIOS. So what's up with this?

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The Radeon(and nVidia) drivers allow some stuff to be cached on the system ram.

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Hey guys. I was looking in my graphics properties thing and saw my "Total Available Graphics Memory" was 6877MB. The card I have is only 3072MB. Apparently I have 3805MB from Shared System Memory. What does that mean? I still have 8GB like I should. I have no memory allocated to video in my BIOS. So what's up with this?

 

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Hey guys. I was looking in my graphics properties thing and saw my "Total Available Graphics Memory" was 6877MB. The card I have is only 3072MB. Apparently I have 3805MB from Shared System Memory. What does that mean? I still have 8GB like I should. I have no memory allocated to video in my BIOS. So what's up with this?

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The Radeon(and nVidia) drivers allow some stuff to be cached on the system ram.

*Risky click of the day*

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There is no problem here. 

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There is no problem here. 

I know it's not a problem, I just want to know what it is.

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Prometheus (Main Rig)

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Laptop: 

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Intel Core i3-5005U, 8GB RAM, Crucial MX 100 128GB, Touch-Screen, Intel 7260 WiFi/Bluetooth card.

 Phone:

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TruPureX, Asus Zenwatch 3.

 Game Consoles:

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Softmodded Fat PS2 w/ 80GB HDD, and a Dreamcast.

 

If you want my attention quote my post, or tag me. If you don't use PCPartPicker I will ignore your build.

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I know it's not a problem, I just want to know what it is.

for cashing stuff !

CPU: Intel I7 4790K 4.8 Ghz || Mobo: ASUS ROG Maximus Hero 6 Z87 || Ram: Corsair Vengeance 16 GB 1600 Mhz || GPU: ASUS GTX 980 Ti STRIX || Storage: 2 x SSD Samsung 840 EVO 250 GB RAID 0 HDD Western Digital 1 TB Black || PSU: Corsair AX 860 watt || Cooling: 2 x AF 140mm (front), 2 AF120 Blue LED (bottom and back), 2 SP120 (top on radiator) ||  CPU cooler: Corsair H100i GTX || Case: Corsair obsidian 750D <3 <3 <3 

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