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Old 20-11-2007, 09:18 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Graphics card address space question

No, the limitation of 'accessible'/addressable RAM in an OS is down to the OS.

Your are using Vista x64, which is 64-bit aware, and as such can address 2^64 individual locations, which is somewhere up in the range of...a lot, I just haven't a calculator handy and can't remember the value!

Given this, every location that needs an address, be it RAM/GPU/BIOS/IO will get one without issue.

You won't have any issues using that card with any amount of RAM your machine can support!

Hopefully that helps (and I've got it right!)

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