thanks to all who applied, the thought was I need to upgrade a friends box to 2 gb so I thought I'd put 4 in here for future use and stream what I got. Actually ( cough ) thinking of putting in Vista 64 on a dual boot with expandvista, used their backup sw for years. http://www.standbydisk.com/XV/index.html
fp At 11:46 AM 10/24/2008, Bryan Seitz Poked the stick with: > Go with XP64, been using it with 4G of ram for a long time now and love it. > With a 32 bit OS and 4G of ram, >a single process won't be able to utililze more than ~ 2.8G. Windows never >showed more than 2.5-3 for some odd >reason with XP32. > >On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 01:01:37PM -0400, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: >> I'm been running my work PC o XP for nearly 2 years now on 4 gigs of ram. >> system shows 3.12 GB of RAM. Not a problem. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: FORC5 >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 11:56 AM >> Subject: [H] 4 gig memory ? >> >> >> any problems putting 4 gig of memory in XP ? >> >> I know it will only see 3 but 4 gig for $60 >> >> any chance any programs will use it ? and problems with the OS not liking >> it ? >> >> opinions appreciated ? >> fp >> >> -- >> Tallyho ! ]:8) >> Taglines below ! >> -- >> Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. > >-- > >Bryan G. Seitz -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Trust your neighbors, but brand your cattle.
