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Graphics card reduces system ram?
Hi folks.
i now have win vista 32 + 4 gigs of sys ram + 512mb Nvidia graphics card.
At the moment the system states I have only 3.5 gigs of ram (4 gigs original minus 512 mb ram from graphics card).

If I buy a 1 gig graphics card will that mean I will stay with only 3 gigs of system ram?
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Windows 32 bit can only read up to 3.5GB of ram. That is why your system does not see the full 4GB. To utilize all of your system ram you would need to use a 64 bit operating system.

The video ram is located on the video card. It has nothing to do with your system ram. If you buy a 1GB graphics card, it will only help load more graphical data, but could actually be slower if you bought an inferior card (with more memory)
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I bought an EVGA geforce gtx 280 1 gig.
My other specs are 4 gig of ram (4 sticks),
intel core 2 duo e6750 2.66MHZ,
mobo: Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3.
PSU corsair vx550w
so will my system run smooth?
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W/o Vista likely yes.
4G is really the direct addressing limit of 32bit systems. There IS the PA mode, in witch you can enable more, but... it has the quirks and limits and so on...
Probably XP 64bit is the best way to go for you. Vista is too hungry and slow down games by eating too much memory and resources - while providing for that only DRM limitations and so...
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