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Re: Optimizing working with big data 1 Week Ago by Dani …, let's use my use case and say dozens of gigs and millions of rows. > How often do you need… Is 4 Gigs of Ram too much? 18 Years Ago by cronus88 Hello everyone, I'm about to buy 4 Gigs of ddr2 ram for my computer. Its a Dell Dimension … computer. That in some instances, having as much as 4 gigs of ram can slow your computer down rather than speed… any truth to this? Should I pass on the 4 gigs and only get 2? Thanks for any help! Re: Is 4 Gigs of Ram too much? 18 Years Ago by cronus88 Thanks for the help. I ended up getting the geforce 7600 GS and 3 gigs of ram, and i've never been happier. Couldn't have done it without the great advice, thanks again! 10 Gigs Of Bandwidth?... How Much Visitors Is That? 18 Years Ago by terrance06 … to ask a question. Does anyone knows how much 10 gigs of bandwidth is equal to the amount of visitors? Like… let's say can 10 gigs handle 100,000 visitors in a week or month? If… Re: 10 Gigs Of Bandwidth?... How Much Visitors Is That? 18 Years Ago by terrance06 … in source and, say, 30k in images (40k total), 10 gigs would give you about 250,000 visits. Rough numbers I… that's a heck of a good number for 10 gigs... Thanks, Terrance. 100 Gigs of HDD Space Gone after fresh instal? 15 Years Ago by Helltech … instant messengers. For some reason I have already used 100 gigs? I don't see how this is possible at all… and I should, at MOST, only have used about 40 gigs of space. Any idea on if there is a program… Re: 10 Gigs Of Bandwidth?... How Much Visitors Is That? 18 Years Ago by Infarction That really depends on what you're serving. If you have pages that average 10k in source and, say, 30k in images (40k total), 10 gigs would give you about 250,000 visits. Rough numbers I just popped out of my head though ;) External Hard Drive recommendations? suggested gigs? for media collecting/storing? 18 Years Ago by jaye …, what particular brands would you recommend? Also, exactly how many gigs should I be looking at? Are there any other folks… Installing XP on raided hard drive (2 500 gigs) 17 Years Ago by Nikato … Hard Drive. I ordered three with the computer. Two 500 gigs which are raided and an 80 gig which I planned… Re: 4 gigs ram memory only showing 3.25 gigs help... 16 Years Ago by SteveEl … think If windows XP cannot address 4 or more gigs then let me ask a few questions which I… hope someone can answer. I have 4 gigs of ram for GTA4 on PC, windows XP SP3…there a way to get it to use all 4 gigs on windows xp? (i remember you saying you … newer windows OS support 4 gigs, all i want is it to use 4 gigs. thanks in advance for your… Re: 4 gigs ram memory only showing 3.25 gigs help... 16 Years Ago by Merlin33069 … bit os, only allow a user to use 3.25 gigs of ram, the os itself is supposedely able to use… the full 4 gigs, but not the user. the ONLY way to get this…. period. But since the os can still use the 4 gigs it wouldnt make much differance to you. I am running… Re: 4 gigs ram memory only showing 3.25 gigs help... 16 Years Ago by Suspishio … bit os, only allow a user to use 3.25 gigs of ram, the os itself is supposedely able to use… the full 4 gigs, but not the user..../QUOTE] I'm the "whoever… Re: 4 gigs ram memory only showing 3.25 gigs help... 16 Years Ago by SteveEl … my new fatality ram. its 2 sticks , each are 2 gigs. im trying to smoth out gta 4s porting issues with… Re: 4 gigs ram memory only showing 3.25 gigs help... 16 Years Ago by Merlin33069 … combined (1 gig of memory), still leave me with 8 gigs of memory. if for some reason his videocards do that… Re: 2 gigs of ram in 2 slots? 16 Years Ago by kindway Yeah, I kinda figgured that. I have a problem with booting up when I have memory in slots 3 and 4...an intermittent problem that has gotten worse over time. I guess I can just stick with 2 gigs of ram....THANKS EVERYONE Re: Is 4 Gigs of Ram too much? 18 Years Ago by nizzy1115 Well, i think 2 gbs is the max one would want to go. I recently upgraded mine from one gig to 2 gig and the performance is no different under normal usage, but i do notice that under multiple huge aplications and video editing, and encoding and everything going at once, i was running out of ram with 1 gb and it would start to slow the whole system … Re: 10 Gigs Of Bandwidth?... How Much Visitors Is That? 18 Years Ago by jwenting That's distinct pageviews, not visitors... If people reload the page, another pageview. Re: 100 Gigs of HDD Space Gone after fresh instal? 15 Years Ago by Yiuca Probably Shadow Copies & Restore points, Vista creates them often & they often take up chunks of space once plenty of them are created, so my 1st thought would be to perhaps check that. Use Disk cleanup. I'm sure you probs know where & what but just for if not, then in the search bar after clicking the windows button type 'cleanmgr' … Re: 100 Gigs of HDD Space Gone after fresh instal? 15 Years Ago by Helltech Thanks, I didn't think I would have to run diskclean up so soon! Jeeze, that helped a LOT, I'm not quite where I think I should be in free space, but that did a lot of help. Thanks again. Re: 100 Gigs of HDD Space Gone after fresh instal? 15 Years Ago by HAcKePeLL If the matter hasn't been solved then maybe you had 'Wiped' a partition containing that 100 GB which converted it into the unrecognizable 'Raw' format and is the reason its not being displayed by the OS...Download and try a third party partition manager and see if it finds any unallocated/raw space and convert it into FAT32/NTFS accordingly.. Re: 100 Gigs of HDD Space Gone after fresh instal? 15 Years Ago by Yiuca [QUOTE=HAcKePeLL;884894]If the matter hasn't been solved then maybe you had 'Wiped' a partition containing that 100 GB which converted it into the unrecognizable 'Raw' format and is the reason its not being displayed by the OS...Download and try a third party partition manager and see if it finds any unallocated/raw space and convert it into FAT32/… Re: Installing XP on raided hard drive (2 500 gigs) 17 Years Ago by DimaYasny what you need is to create a driver floppy with the raid controller drivers (the infamous F6 disk) and hit F6 when the system prompts you to do so, insert the floppy and the driver will go in. brand name systems (well at leaste the servers) provide you with a bootable CD that loads the drivers into memory and lets you install the system without a … Re: Installing XP on raided hard drive (2 500 gigs) 17 Years Ago by hughv What's the obsession with RAID? I assume you're talking about RAID 1 or RAID 0. Check out this article and do a little more research before tackling this project: Why RAID Is (Usually) a Terrible Idea [url]http://www.pugetsystems.com/articles.php?id=29[/url] Re: Installing XP on raided hard drive (2 500 gigs) 17 Years Ago by DimaYasny for home computing only raid0 makes sense (if you are backing things up all the time, that is). and anyhow if you're using raid for performance, a proper controller should be used. the onboard ones are fakeraid, meaning they still use the resources of your system, instead of having their own. a proper controller will have it's own memory, it's own … Re: Installing XP on raided hard drive (2 500 gigs) 17 Years Ago by Nikato @hughv: My system came with Raid so I'd rather keep it with it on. @DimaYasny: How do I know if I have a proper controller or not? I believe its in raid zero atm, i can double check. I know its being ran off something from NVIDIA, is that what you mean by having a proper controller? Also, I don't have a floppy drive. I didn't have one … Re: Installing XP on raided hard drive (2 500 gigs) 17 Years Ago by DimaYasny nvidia you say? then it's just fakeraid. afaik they do not make real raid controllers. as for the setup, your motherboard cd should have all the utilities Re: Installing XP on raided hard drive (2 500 gigs) 17 Years Ago by Nikato Yeah I was checking out the CD and saw that it did have the files on it. So now I have two questions for you if you don't mind answering (you've been a great help so far). One, do i format my thumb drive (its 560 something megs) and then put it in my comp and create the disk by extracting the image to the thumb drive. and Two, when … Re: Installing XP on raided hard drive (2 500 gigs) 17 Years Ago by DimaYasny [QUOTE=Nikato;500726]One, do i format my thumb drive (its 560 something megs) and then put it in my comp and create the disk by extracting the image to the thumb drive.[/QUOTE] there should be a utility there that will format the flash drive the right way. it's not just extracting, but the fact that the computer has to see the flashdrive as drive … Re: Installing XP on raided hard drive (2 500 gigs) 17 Years Ago by Nikato Wow, you are a great help. Okay, so after I put the image onto my thumb drive this is what I do right? 1.) Remove/unplug my current C drive (the 80gig) 2.) Go into the BIOS, make sure its set to boot from CD and change my Raided drives to ran first (thought i shouldn't matter since the 80gig is gone now) 3.) Start up the computer, it will ask … Re: Installing XP on raided hard drive (2 500 gigs) 17 Years Ago by DimaYasny something like that, yeah you might want to have a look in the bios setup, to see if it has a floppy emulation option for USB drives