John D. Mort wrote:
My understanding was that 32bit could only address about 3.5gb RAM.
I'm on my phone right now so I can't verify but some googlemancy
should clear that up.
On 2/9/10, xe22<[email protected]> wrote:
The main reason to run 64-bit is if you have> 3GB of RAM. You can run>
3GB
of RAM with 32-bit if you use PAE [Physical Address Extension], but PAE
still
only allows individual applications to use up to 3 GB of RAM. Most
applications don't need that much RAM (for now), so this is mostly a
non-issue.
So IMHO it doesn't really matter one way or the other which you choose; I
went
over to 64-bit mainly to try it out and see what issues I'd run into --
which
are minimal -- only a couple of missing packages, and if I actually cared
I
could install the missing packages from 32-bit to get around that issue.
-- Chris
I thought 32 bit could use up to 4GB of memory, and 64
had a much higher limit. If not you just saved me from
buying 2 more sticks to make it four.
Louis
Tried that but with all the confusion about totals with video card
memory and whichever I just gave up. But I can add to 2GB and
at least use some of it.
Louis
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