Hardware Reserved refers to a portion of your RAM reserved by the hardware components and BIOS/UEFI firmware to work properly. Hardware reserved memory is not available to the operating system, which ...

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.

Upgrading hardware by installing more RAM boosts a system’s performance. If your system lags when gaming or doing heavy tasks, you can upgrade RAM. If the hardware upgrade process is performed ...