Studio XPS 16 2.96 GB Useable RAM

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  1. Product FRED
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    Mellon Head said:
    Product FRED said:
    If he installed the 32-bit version, he'd be able to use about 3.5GB, which is more than he's describing.
    Not necessarily. As Wishmaster says, the graphics card will chew up some of it. My laptop has 4 GB, and I get just under 3.1GB usable. (512M Graphics card)
    That's because there's a dedicated GPU and a discreet graphics chipset. Some RAM is allocated to the chipset.
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  3. Mellon Head
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    Product FRED said:
    Mellon Head said:
    Product FRED said:
    If he installed the 32-bit version, he'd be able to use about 3.5GB, which is more than he's describing.
    Not necessarily. As Wishmaster says, the graphics card will chew up some of it. My laptop has 4 GB, and I get just under 3.1GB usable. (512M Graphics card)
    That's because there's a dedicated GPU and a discreet graphics chipset. Some RAM is allocated to the chipset.
    Yes. And if the OP has a 1 GB video card, it stands to reason that he would see even less available memory than I do...
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  4. A F 1 G 3
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    I figured out why it was displaying that way, when I go to msconfig and change the hardware boxes and check the MAXIMUM MEMORY box and set it to 4096 and restart it goes back to 0 value for some reason and also changes to 2.96 useable, when I uncheck that box and restart it goes back to displaying normally...thanks guys for the input
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