available memory

kyleVTR · 7 Apr 2012 at 15:00

I have 8gb ram installed on my mob checked system information says:
installed physical memory - 8gb
total physical memory - 7.48gb
available physical memory - 6.30gb
is this correct or should they all say 8gb, 1st time building a pc btw lol

Surveyor · 7 Apr 2012 at 15:02

Are you using an integrated GPU?

If so some RAM will be allocated to that.

kyleVTR · 7 Apr 2012 at 15:38

got a gtx 560ti

Surveyor · 7 Apr 2012 at 15:41

kyleVTR said:
got a gtx 560ti

Do you also have an integrated GPU you haven't disabled?

Check in the Device Manager and see if the integrated GPU is enabled and listed along with the GTX 560Ti.

If it's enabled, and you're not using it, then disable it.

kyleVTR · 7 Apr 2012 at 15:57

na its not its just my 560 enabled

cmndr_andi · 7 Apr 2012 at 16:08

If you are using a Asus p8z68 v-lx and i5 2500k then you do have an onboard GPU, it just may not being used at the moment (since you have a GTX 560Ti graphics card).

However, this doesn't mean that it has been disabled. I would recommend you go into the BIOS and make sure it is shut down - as the onboard GPU doesn't have its own VRAM (unlike your GTX 560Ti 1GB) so it makes use of some main system RAM.

kyleVTR · 7 Apr 2012 at 16:10

ok thanks will check the bios

kyleVTR · 7 Apr 2012 at 16:23

i set the bios to pci only and its gone down to 6.19gb available :S

Surveyor · 7 Apr 2012 at 16:39

kyleVTR said:
i set the bios to pci only and its gone down to 6.19gb available :S

Ignore that.

I think you want both of these to read 8GB:

installed physical memory - 8gb
total physical memory - 7.48gb

If the integtated GPU is enabled it should appear in the Device Manager somewhere.

Are you sure there's nothing listed but the GTX 560Ti under Display Adapters?

Not even anything with an exclamation mark beside it because you haven't installed the drivers for the integrated GPU?

kyleVTR · 7 Apr 2012 at 16:44

nope nothing just the 560ti enabled mate

kyleVTR · 8 Apr 2012 at 14:20

anyone have any ideas??

kyleVTR · 11 Apr 2012 at 23:20

need help this is what its showing

Surveyor · 12 Apr 2012 at 00:01

I can't see anything wrong with the memory usage.

With Windows 7 "Free memory" is wasted memory.

Standby memory will free up as it's needed.

It's just part of the memory management where Windows tries to pre-empt what you will use and how much memory it will need.

Here's mine doing nothing intensive on the PC:

kyleVTR · 12 Apr 2012 at 00:13

O ok so nothing to worry about then lol

shankly1985 · 14 Apr 2012 at 18:31

Here mine I also use 8gb

shankly1985 · 14 Apr 2012 at 18:46

Surveyor said:
I can't see anything wrong with the memory usage.

With Windows 7 "Free memory" is wasted memory.

Standby memory will free up as it's needed.

It's just part of the memory management where Windows tries to pre-empt what you will use and how much memory it will need.

Here's mine doing nothing intensive on the PC:

Question is it ok for free memory to be so high? take a look at pic you said free is wasted memory? so am wasting over 2GB of my ram?
thanks

Surveyor · 14 Apr 2012 at 20:34

shankly1985 said:
Question is it ok for free memory to be so high? take a look at pic you said free is wasted memory? so am wasting over 2GB of my ram?
thanks

Just leave Windows to do its own thing.

The PC I took that screenshot from is on 24/7 for weeks at a time and only gets re-started to install updates.

If I took a screenshot straight after booting the PC the majority of the RAM would be "free".

Over time Windows tries to pre-empt what you're going to use and free RAM becomes standby RAM.

shankly1985 · 15 Apr 2012 at 05:31

Surveyor said:
Just leave Windows to do its own thing.

The PC I took that screenshot from is on 24/7 for weeks at a time and only gets re-started to install updates.

If I took a screenshot straight after booting the PC the majority of the RAM would be "free".

Over time Windows tries to pre-empt what you're going to use and free RAM becomes standby RAM.

OK thanks