banyanbraid
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Ok so I've been using my new HP laptop with Windows 7. Although there are a few hiccups on it, I'm very happy with its performance. .
I was looking through my System Information and noticed that the "Installed RAM" was 6.00 GB but the "Available Physical Memory" is only 3.96 GB. I game a lot on my laptop so I want to know three things...
1) Does this mean that my computer is not optimizing how much memory it uses?
2) If this is a problem, what can I do to fix it?
3) Will it improve the performance of my computer when gaming if all 6.00 GB RAM are used?
if it helps here is a summary of my system information
[System Summary]
Item Value
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name SANKALP-PC
System Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard
System Model HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q 720 @ 1.60GHz, 1600 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Hewlett-Packard F.1A, 4/1/2010
SMBIOS Version 2.6
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7600.16385"
User Name Sankalp-PC\Sankalp
Time Zone Central Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 6.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 5.99 GB
Available Physical Memory 3.96 GB
Total Virtual Memory 12.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 9.82 GB
Page File Space 5.99 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
I was looking through my System Information and noticed that the "Installed RAM" was 6.00 GB but the "Available Physical Memory" is only 3.96 GB. I game a lot on my laptop so I want to know three things...
1) Does this mean that my computer is not optimizing how much memory it uses?
2) If this is a problem, what can I do to fix it?
3) Will it improve the performance of my computer when gaming if all 6.00 GB RAM are used?
if it helps here is a summary of my system information
[System Summary]
Item Value
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name SANKALP-PC
System Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard
System Model HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q 720 @ 1.60GHz, 1600 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Hewlett-Packard F.1A, 4/1/2010
SMBIOS Version 2.6
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7600.16385"
User Name Sankalp-PC\Sankalp
Time Zone Central Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 6.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 5.99 GB
Available Physical Memory 3.96 GB
Total Virtual Memory 12.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 9.82 GB
Page File Space 5.99 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys