The portion of a computer’s RAM that is used by a hardware device such as a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), sound card, network adapter, and other hardware components is known as Hardware Reserved.

Have some older machines that for some reason, were ordered with Windows 7 32-bit. Where we can, we are clean installing Windows 10 64-bit, but where we can't (remote machines), we're just upgrading ...

I stuck a Videocard in my computer (Gene-Z Z68) and I noticed in resource monitor 96MB is hardware reserved. Would that be the onboard GPU still allocating ram even if a GPU board is plugged into the ...