8 GB Ram is visible but usable ram is 5,93 GB

artless1912

Hello, firstly i hope you're all fine. I bought an acer laptop 2 weeks ago , https://www.acer.com/ac/tr/TR/content/model/NX.HF0EY.002 here is a laptop. Have 8gb ram and 2 gb external graphic card but at the system features usable ram is 5,93 gb as seen in the photo. After the doing same researched i learned that vram using 2 gb except rx540. I don't wanna this, i need only use the external graphic card and have usable 8gb ram. I'm looking the bios for fix it this situation but i can't fix the problem. Please help me. How can i change the settings ? 2 gb is very much for the vram, just external graphic card is enough for me. What do you think all ?

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Amd control screen looking like this :

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tjerk

Hi, I have the same with my Swift. Graphical card uses RAM from your internal memory. So if you have 8GB RAM you can only use 5,93GB RAM for your system. The rest is reserved for your graphical card. If applicable, do a memory upgrade to gain more memory but for most work 5,93GB is enough.

JackE

This is normal. The operating system and any antivirus software needs 2GB to boot the system and run in the background. The rest of the 6GB RAM is all yours to do with what you want.

Jack E/NJ

tjerk

JackE said:

This is normal. The operating system and any antivirus software needs 2GB to boot the system and run in the background. The rest of the 6GB RAM is all yours to do with what you want. Jack E/NJ

JackE: that is nonsense, the 2GB you miss is in use by the onboard videocard, not for OS software.

Dukebox

tjerk said:

JackE said:

This is normal. The operating system and any antivirus software needs 2GB to boot the system and run in the background. The rest of the 6GB RAM is all yours to do with what you want. Jack E/NJ

JackE: that is nonsense, the 2GB you miss is in use by the onboard videocard, not for OS software.

So with that said I have an aspire 3 with 8gb and you can cram another 4gb ram in there but which ram? as I understand it it has to be the same speed etc which I do not understand? My aspire is brand new.