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Re:Can a 32-bit OS machine use up all 8GB RAM + 20GB page file? by 3amOpsGuy on Saturday July 14, 2012 @12:08PM (#4244530)
>> I'm assuming this is 1000 vs 1024 issue

It'll likely be your graphics card uses a portion of your main RAM for its memory. This is common.

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Re:Can a 32-bit OS machine use up all 8GB RAM + 20GB page file? by cookiecaper on Sunday July 15, 2012 @01:38AM (#4246246)
I'm not sure this is true for discrete cards. Onboard GPUs will utilize good chunks of system memory (and this is configurable in the system BIOS generally), but discrete cards don't use any afaik.
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