Alright thanks a bunch man, it just triggered a thought in my mind because I was watching a pc building tutorial on newegg and saw that the rig they had said that he had the full 8gb usable memory and I was like wtf is mine not full. I think its because he didn't do the windows experience test or something. IDK thanks a bunch tho.
Im sorry, but this is total misinformation. WEI has
NOTHING to do with how much ram your systems sees.
When your PC is not seeing or using all the ram you have installed, It could only be either 1 or 2 of 4 reasons..
#1. Bios not configured correctly - theres a bios setting that has to be configured, something like memory hole. before it sees all the ram
#2. You
are not using a 64bit operating system. the 32bit windows can only address under 4GB of ram -
Dont forget that the amount of ram on your graphics card also effects the final amount of ram your system sees
#3. Shared Graphics/Hyper memory - some graphic cards, especially the built in GPUs use some of the systems ram as their own dedicated memory and its upto the driver/operating system to allocate how much ram to the graphics. HOWEVER there are settings in the bios where you can set the maximum amount of ram that the graphics can be allocated.
Hyper memory cards dont quite work on the same basis as most of them, already come with their own dedicated memory and will only use system memory if their own buffer has been filled and it requires it
#4. BIOS/CHIPSET Limitations - earlier bios's and both early mobile and desktop chipsets were often limited to the amount of ram you can use. Infact, some of them are still limited...take a look at Intels ATOM CPU netbook line up. with most atom netbooks you cant use more then 2GB of ram because the limitation has either been hardcoded into the chipset or the CPU.
NOTHING to do with WEI at all
