Hi,
On 11/28/11 11:14 AM, Veech wrote:
> I have a NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 with 1GB RAM. ugh, so max addressable
> would be 3GB RAM? Still it might be worth the $40 or so bucks to
> increase RAM by 50%.
>
>
This really depends on your long term plans for the system.
Personally I would put in 4 more GB of memory (DDR2 is not going to get
any cheaper, and it's been going up in price).
Once you move to a "new" rig, you can put linux on this box, which has
many 64 bit native variants, that will see and use all 6GB of memory.
The extra 3GB will just sit unused.
Harry
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Fisk"
> <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 08:09
> Subject: Re: [H] RAM Upgrade Question
>
>
>> You have a video card with 756mb of ram in it? Remember it is 4gb of
>> addressable memory anywhere for 32 bit os. So any devide that has
>> memory
>> no matter how small is counted. Ram gets last dibs on the addressable
>> memory.
>> On Nov 28, 2011 9:20 AM, "FORC5" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> FWIW my XP box with 4gb ram sees 3.25 of it. Bios on post sees it all.
>>>
>>> fp
>>>
>>> At 11:50 PM 11/27/2011, Veech Poked the stick with:
>>>
>>>> I have a 5-year old PC that is humming along just fine using XP
>>>> SP3. The
>>>> board is an EVGA nForce 680i which NewEgg says will support up to
>>>> 8GB RAM:
>>>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/**Product.aspx?Item=**N82E16813188013<http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188013>however
>>>> I have always thought that XP will only "see" 4G RAM> Is this true
>>>> or will my board actually see the 8GB RAM with XP SP3? I doubt it
>>>> will,
>>>> but just wanted to throw it out there, see what you guys think.
>>>>
>>>> Currently I have 2 x 1GB DDR2-800 RAM Patriot brand. There are two
>>>> more
>>>> DIMM slots available. Should I toss the 5-yr old sticks and get 2
>>>> x 2GB
>>>> RAM or just add 2 more 1GB sticks? RAM is cheap enough now that in
>>>> this
>>>> case the cost isn't a major issue.
>>>>
>>>> thanks!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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