memory remapping needed?

[tomos]

it's on by default in my bios and i'm guessing it's whats causing a small chunk of ram to disappear? e.g i have 16GB but 15.7 usable according to windows.

 

[Orcvader]

Full system specs? What version of Windows are you using?

 

[tomos]

win8 x64 16GB of ram on a asus p8x77-v lx.

on other machines prev, if i had 8GB it showed 8GB as available, not 7.7 or whatever

 

[Orcvader]

I assume you mean P8Z77-V LX. If that's the case, do you have the onboard GPU enabled? If it's enabled then it's reserving RAM for itself. Disable it and you'll have the full fat 16 GB.

 

[tomos]

i do. never thought of that. have my other ati card ready to go but haven't gotten round to it yet