I could be wrong but IIRC your video card memory is included in the 4gb
limit. Lots of cards are coming with 1gb of ram so you are left with 3gb
of system ram on a 32bit system.
If you are using virtual machines a lot, (or working on huge image files
heheh) the more memory the better. I'm using 64bit Karmic ubuntu for 2
months and so far I haven't had any major problems. Flash player had
some full screen bugs but that seem to have gone...
info on windows xp 32bit memory limits
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778(VS.85).aspx#physical_memory_limits_windows_xp
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778%28VS.85%29.aspx#physical_memory_limits_windows_xp>
On 2/9/2010 5:49 PM, 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
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