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Benjji
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Hey guys,

So I have a 1060 and all, but as my CPU has Radeon Vega Graphics, I can only use 6.93gb/8.

Is there any way to free up more usable memory or is this normal?

Thanks.

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You can go into your BIOS and disable your iGPU and turn off the memory allocation since you have a dedicated GPU. 

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Yeah, just disable your Vega IGP.

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3 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

Yeah, just disable your Vega IGP.

Yeah so im kinda bad at this stuff... What is that under? just before I turn my pc off again. thanks

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2 minutes ago, Benjji said:

Yeah so im kinda bad at this stuff... What is that under? just before I turn my pc off again. thanks

That's somewhere in your BIOS. Reboot the PC and hit the key that gets you in the BIOS and locate the setting (can't tell you which as you don't have your motherboard listed).

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1 minute ago, NelizMastr said:

That's somewhere in your BIOS. Reboot the PC and hit the key that gets you in the BIOS and locate the setting (can't tell you which as you don't have your motherboard listed).

I've already looked in the bios, I have an ASRock Ab350 Not sure what to look under. 

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3 minutes ago, Benjji said:

I've already looked in the bios, I have an ASRock Ab350 Not sure what to look under. 

AB350 what?   Pro 4, Fatal1ty Gaming ITX, Gaming K4?

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AB350 what?   Pro 4, Fatal1ty Gaming ITX, Gaming K4?

Pro 4, sorry forgot to mention that.

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3 minutes ago, Benjji said:

Pro 4, sorry forgot to mention that.

Should be in the advanced section somewhere.

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4 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

Should be in the advanced section somewhere.

Yah... under what?

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5 minutes ago, Benjji said:

Yah... under what?

No clue. I don't have ASrock hardware. I only know MSI and Gigabyte UEFI and the manual isn't super helpful either.

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No clue. I don't have ASrock hardware. I only know MSI and Gigabyte UEFI and the manual isn't super helpful either.

Cant i just disable the intigrated gpu in device manager ?

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2 minutes ago, Benjji said:

Cant i just disable the intigrated gpu in device manager ?

You can, but that won't give you the reserved memory back. You have to figure out where Asrock hid the memory setting or the disable setting to achieve that.

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Just now, NelizMastr said:

You can, but that won't give you the reserved memory back. You have to figure out where Asrock hid the memory setting or the disable setting to achieve that.

I found this thing under NBIO common Options. Its called GPU configuration, and it has an option called integrated graphics controller. Is this it?

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3 minutes ago, Benjji said:

I found this thing under NBIO common Options. Its called GPU configuration, and it has an option called integrated graphics controller. Is this it?

Yep.

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3 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

Yep.

So it's disabled, although I still have 6.93GB usable. :/

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3 minutes ago, Benjji said:

So it's disabled, although I still have 6.93GB usable. :/

Reboot Windows once more.

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46 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

Reboot Windows once more.

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So yeah, ive disabled the intergrated graphics controller yet stll have 6.9 usable. there has to be something else i can do..

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