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Not following what you're trying to do. Your GPU will use the dedicated 2GB of GDDR memory it has built-in. If it requires additional RAM to run because it can do up to 4GB of RAM, then it's going to poach it from your system. but the amount of benefit or problems that it creates, I would suspect is negligible.

Maybe swap out your card for the 4GB version instead...?
 
960 is only 2gb card . also i built the pc to be a budget build and i will upgrade later. however i need those 2 gb or just 1 gb more so i can run more application will playing
 
I know it's a 2GB card; I just said that. It's only going to use the full 2GB when it needs to. The screenshots you took doesn't say anything about current GDDR usage; just shows you have 2GB of GDDR5 RAM for the GTX 960, with another 2GB being pulled/used from the system RAM.

Second picture shows you have 8GB of DDR3 RAM installed where only 2.7 GB was being used out of 5.1GB. You do not force the system to try and use more RAM when it tells you it doesn't need it. Now if you're playing games and the RAM is maxed out, you simply have to 1) Buy more RAM or 2) Buy another video card to SLI or a new one with a larger dedicated memory pool (the 4GB versions of the GTX 960 for example).
 
alex2142hp said:
Just get another GTX 960 2 gb and SLI both and you have plenty of power.

http://www.amazon.com/MSI-GTX-960-G...e=UTF8&qid=1429373629&sr=1-6&keywords=gtx+960
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SLI does not double the vram
If you are maxing out your vram and it starts to borrow from your system pool. That memory is extremely slower then your video cards memory.

Like Snipe said if you are running out of vram you can go buy the 4gb version of the 960

example
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487128
 
another answer is a simple one you can up your motherboard memory to 16 gig then not worry about the video card memory usage
:biggrin::cool:
 
HUNTER2 said:
another answer is a simple one you can up your motherboard memory to 16 gig then not worry about the video card memory usage
:biggrin::cool:
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I run 2 ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 (ENGTX560 DCII OC/2DI/1GD5) 1 GB GDDR5 SDRAM SLI together and run 16 gigs of ram, it makes up for the vram (if it maxes out) and runs really smooth:)
 
HUNTER2 said:
another answer is a simple one you can up your motherboard memory to 16 gig then not worry about the video card memory usage
:biggrin::cool:
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See my previous comment about buying more RAM. And calling it Motherboard Memory is a misnomer. The MB has its own installed, though very small, amount of RAM to run and boot up, especially for a brand new build. System, or PC, memory are the sticks you install that is used by the entire system to operate.
 
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