Seeing only 480MB on my MSI nForce

[jaylek55]

Just put together a system using an MSI K7N420 Pro and 2x256 2100 Crucial DDR, yet only 480MB of 512MB is being seen by the system. Sticks were inserted into banks 1 and 2. Since the manual offers only gibberish (at least to me), could someone tell me if I'm doing something wrong? Or is this normal? Any help is appreciated.

 

[AndyHui]

32MB allocated to onboard video. 512 - 32 = 480.

What you are seeing is normal.

 

[jaylek55]

Good to know I didn't mess up something. Thanks, Andy.

 

[shathal]

it's one of the reasons why "real" GFX-cards (ergo AGP/PCI) with on-board mem are better.

1: Faster access to local memory
2: non-involvement of the CPU
3: you don't loose XX MB's of memory to your on-board graphics.

Course - it's all a trade-off for cost .

 

[Peter]

You really think the CPU involvement is any different with separate graphics cards? ROTFL!