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February 22, 2008

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Where's the Rest of My Memory?

A reader writes: "I'm running the 32-bit version of Windows Vista. I have an nVidia 8800 GTX graphics card with 768MB of video memory, which I use for gaming, and a secondary PCI Express card—an nVidia 8500 GT with a heat-pipe cooler and 256MB of video memory. I use the two video cards to drive a total of three monitors. I recently upgraded my memory to 4GB, but when I run Vista, it shows that I've only got a little over 2GB of RAM. Where did the other 2GB go?"

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Today's Tip: Where's the Rest of My Memory?