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[rudolf <rwschnetler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 09:37 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> On Monday 04 June 2007 09:12, primm wrote:
> > My mobo info says 'Geforce 6100 with up to 384Mb shared memory'. How
> > do I find out how much memory it's taking? Is it RAM it's taking?
> 
> What exactly are you trying to find out? Those 384 MB reside on the 
> video board itself. By "shared memory" it means this memory can appear 
> directly in the address space of the host system and be accessed just 
> like primary RAM. These video boards do not use any of your primary 
> system RAM, though they do take up address space. This is in contrast 
> to some mainboard video hardware, which uses system RAM as its 
> framebuffer and primitive storage.
> 
> Depending on the CPU and mainboard you use, the presence of video RAM in 
> the system's physical address space may or may not limit the amount of 
> primary RAM you can actually access. In particular, without a CPU and 
> mainboard capable of supporting PAE (physical address extension), the 
> need to bring the video (and possibly other PCI card) RAM into the 
> 32-bit physical address space may limit usable primary RAM to 3 or 3.5 
> GB.

Nope, exactly the opposite, shared video memory means it allocates or
reserve system memory (RAM) for the video card.

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=1399&p=2
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-10149_102-0.html?forumID=7&threadID=119317&messageID=1354197

To answer primm's questions:

1. Check the BIOS
2. Yes, it is RAM

Regards

Rudolf





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