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Post by Sword_Gun » Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:03 pm

1) My Ram is 512 MB, but when I use dxdiag it says 510 MB, Why is that?
2) My Videocard is a: ATi Radeon 7500 Mobility, does anyone know how much MB that video card is? (Dxdiag says 32 mb, but I recall ATi saying 64 MB for the NON mobility, what questions me, is why the 7500 is 64MB when the 7500 Mobility is 32 MB.)

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Post by Nonsense Man » Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:07 pm

if you have windows use this program Windows Xp Game Advisor it is virus free and works on labtops or if that doesn't work go to http://gamespot.com and search somethin like Half Life 2 and scroll down Find Half Life 2 for PC And click it and click can i run it and when its done it tells your computer specs.

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Post by vskid » Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:26 pm

Sword_Gun wrote:1) My Ram is 512 MB, but when I use dxdiag it says 510 MB, Why is that?
2) My Videocard is a: ATi Radeon 7500 Mobility, does anyone know how much MB that video card is? (Dxdiag says 32 mb, but I recall ATi saying 64 MB for the NON mobility, what questions me, is why the 7500 is 64MB when the 7500 Mobility is 32 MB.)

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Mobility would likely have less to save power/cost. Just because it is a 7500 doesn't garentee its 64mb, it could just as easily be 32.
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Post by HomicidalBarber » Tue Jul 25, 2006 7:46 pm

On some motherboards on boot up it will display the amount of ram in a graphics card.

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Post by timmeh87 » Tue Jul 25, 2006 8:38 pm

it says 510 because nothings ever exactly what you expect.

4.7gb dvds only hold 4.35GB
512 meg flash cards only hold 488 megs.

theres nothing wrong with your ram or anything. i wouldnt worry about 2 megs anyways.

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Post by Harshboy » Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:13 pm

Yea...you always need to format crap. I have 1 GB ram, its actually 1020 MB (it should be 1024 MB). I have a 250 GB HDD, it came with only 235 GB or something and then 5 GB with the windows installed.


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Post by sgtpepper » Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:50 pm

I've got a Radeon 7500 that's not mobile and it has 32 MB of VRAM so I think it can go either way...
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Post by slimjimmy » Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:59 pm

my 80GB HDD reads only 71 GB according to windows.
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Post by joevennix » Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:01 pm

Harshboy wrote:Yea...you always need to format crap. I have 1 GB ram, its actually 1020 MB (it should be 1024 MB). I have a 250 GB HDD, it came with only 235 GB or something and then 5 GB with the windows installed.
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Post by Indigno » Tue Jul 25, 2006 11:03 pm

google belarc advisor. It should tell you.

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Post by Sparkfist » Wed Jul 26, 2006 6:14 am

Guys remember that when you have any thing for storing data you have to have a table telling where it's allocated. I lost about 7 gigs only 128GB exteral hard drive. The same also goes for CDs and DVDs, however most of the room you lack like the 50 or so megs lost on a CD or ~700MB on a DVD are for error correction. You can get that information back but it might end up making the disc unreadable or if it gets scratched the data mgiht not be able to be read anymore.

And 2MB lost out of your RAM is nothing to worry about, that's very inconsiquestional. If you losse access to 10 or more MB then you should conserned of a problem.
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