Advice on Increasing VRAM

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So I have an Asus S500CA laptop.
Here are the specs:
Intel Core i5-3317U CPU @ 1.70 GHz 1.70GHz
12.0 GB RAM (11.8 Usable)
64 bit
Intel HD Graphics 4000
Total Available Graphics Memory: 1824 MB
Dedicated VRAM: 128 MB (Originally 64 MB before I increased it)

So my question is that what will happen if I increase VRAM?
How do I check if VRAM has been successfully increased?
Are there any downsides?
What does VRAM even do?
Thanks!
 
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Completely pointless to do that in Win 7 and up. All it does is reserve 128MB of system RAM at the bios level for your internal graphics, so your maximum system memory ends up being 12.0GB - 128MB. For the HD4000 on Win 7 and up and that much RAM, it does absolutely nothing beneficial or detrimental except in edge cases I'm sure have nothing to do with you
Completely pointless to do that in Win 7 and up. All it does is reserve 128MB of system RAM at the bios level for your internal graphics, so your maximum system memory ends up being 12.0GB - 128MB. For the HD4000 on Win 7 and up and that much RAM, it does absolutely nothing beneficial or detrimental except in edge cases I'm sure have nothing to do with you
 
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