im so confused! ive been told if i buy a 3gb 32bit systme i might have more available ram than if i buy a 4gb 32 bit systme! what?!
something to do with the drivers...
help! i need to understand! i need to buy a high end pc for starcraft 2 soon!
chopficaro 0 Light Poster
UrbanKhoja 89 Practically a Posting Shark Featured Poster
For a while Vista was unable to properly read 4Gb RAM, but this should have been fixed in recent updates though?
To my knowledge systems prefer even numbers when it comes to RAM rather than odd ones, I.e 32, 64, 128, 256, 512 etc. So not sure if you'll get the most out of 3Gb.
Dazza :cool:
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
no no no
it will never be fixed
people just assume it was fixed in vista sp1 because MS changed it to now read the total ram, not the total available ram.
its due to the fact that 32 bit systems cant address that much memory (the memory addresses are physically too long to fit in the CPUs registers)
all 32 bit oses cannot address more than 4gb ram. 64 bit systems can use a hell of a lot more .
Also, 4gb of ram on windows x32 is a waste, because the workstaion versions only allow running apps to use up to a total of 2gb (server versions allow up to 3gb)
dise652 17 Junior Poster in Training
seems help a lot
chopficaro 0 Light Poster
some people say they can handle 4gb, some say 3, some say 2.
still confused. i want to get as much memory as i can on 32bit windows xp. which version of windows xp should i download? how much ram is able to be used? if i add more than that, can the devices use the extra memory?
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
4gb max
2gb max can be used by running programs in a standard configuration
which version of windows xp should i download
i hope you dont imply that you are pirating it !
bobbyraw 16 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
4Gb of ram on windows is a waste and as for which version of windows you should use depends on the processor you have.
binoj_daniel 14 Practically a Master Poster
You can defintely benefit by adding 4GB RAM on your pc running Windows XP.
There is a switch called /3GB which can be used to maximize memory address space usage for user processes.
Please read this kb article for more details.
3GB switch best works on servers.
Let me know if you need more info.
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
most processes wont use the memory /3gb gives them , only ones i know of are the MS server producvts and some CAD/CAM software
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