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Windows showing more memory than there actually is...
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aximbigfan
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what north/south brige do you have?
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PVTCaboose1337
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| Motherboard | Asus P8Z77-V LX |
| Cooling | Cooler Master Hyper 212+ |
| Memory | 2 x 4GB G.Skill Ripjaws @ 1600mhz |
| Video Card(s) | Gigabyte GTX 670 2gb |
| Storage | Samsung 840 Pro 256gb, WD 2TB Black |
| Display(s) | Shimian QH270 (1440p), Asus VE228 (1080p) |
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So just to be sure, could you show us a screenshot... I have a sneaky suspension that you are looking at pagefile...
Jimmy 2004
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| Memory | 1GB Kingston PC3200 (2x512MB) |
| Video Card(s) | Saphire 256MB X800 GTO @ 450MHz/560MHz (Core/Memory) |
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One rare thing that I've had happen is for dodgy sticks of RAM to fool Windows into thinking there is more RAM than there is - I can only actually remember this happening once, but a bad stick of 256MB was being shown as 512MB (PC wasn't too unstable, but had some problems).
PVTCaboose1337
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| Motherboard | Asus P8Z77-V LX |
| Cooling | Cooler Master Hyper 212+ |
| Memory | 2 x 4GB G.Skill Ripjaws @ 1600mhz |
| Video Card(s) | Gigabyte GTX 670 2gb |
| Storage | Samsung 840 Pro 256gb, WD 2TB Black |
| Display(s) | Shimian QH270 (1440p), Asus VE228 (1080p) |
| Case | Cooler Master 430 Elite |
| Audio Device(s) | Onboard > PA2V2 Amp > Senn 595's |
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| Software | Windows 8.1 (Tweaked) |
But the ram he has does not seem dodgy...
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| Memory | 32GB DDR4-3200 |
| Video Card(s) | EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra |
| Storage | 1TB NVME, 1TB Raid 0 (Samsung 500gb SSD), 248gb SSD Boot Generic |
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show also a cpuz screenshot, on the memory tab
PVTCaboose1337
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| Motherboard | Asus P8Z77-V LX |
| Cooling | Cooler Master Hyper 212+ |
| Memory | 2 x 4GB G.Skill Ripjaws @ 1600mhz |
| Video Card(s) | Gigabyte GTX 670 2gb |
| Storage | Samsung 840 Pro 256gb, WD 2TB Black |
| Display(s) | Shimian QH270 (1440p), Asus VE228 (1080p) |
| Case | Cooler Master 430 Elite |
| Audio Device(s) | Onboard > PA2V2 Amp > Senn 595's |
| Power Supply | Corsair 750w |
| Software | Windows 8.1 (Tweaked) |
I stand corrected...
Polaris573
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| Memory | 6GB G.Skill DDRII 800 4-4-3-5 |
| Video Card(s) | Sapphire HD 7850 2 GB PCI-E |
| Storage | 1 TB Seagate 32MB Cache, 250 GB Seagate 16MB Cache |
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What does your BIOS say?
PVTCaboose1337
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| Motherboard | Asus P8Z77-V LX |
| Cooling | Cooler Master Hyper 212+ |
| Memory | 2 x 4GB G.Skill Ripjaws @ 1600mhz |
| Video Card(s) | Gigabyte GTX 670 2gb |
| Storage | Samsung 840 Pro 256gb, WD 2TB Black |
| Display(s) | Shimian QH270 (1440p), Asus VE228 (1080p) |
| Case | Cooler Master 430 Elite |
| Audio Device(s) | Onboard > PA2V2 Amp > Senn 595's |
| Power Supply | Corsair 750w |
| Software | Windows 8.1 (Tweaked) |
And Cpu-z plz as well... I've never seen anything like this. Cpu-z cannot be wrong I hope...