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  Yes. : geedeck
  • dammit. thanks. : Saman
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  I thought it was 4, but really tops out at 3.5ish. : changejar419
  • ^^^more accurate : slickdoody
  • yeah. 32 bit Vista is the same : Degenerate
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    Yes, it is 4, but your video card memory also counts towards the total, and windows will recognize that o... : Sparhawk6
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      Wow...didn't know that. Lame! : changejar419
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        well, it's more complicated then that, but yeah, 3.4ish is where it maxes out. And it's silly to get upset about ... it's just a limit of 32 bit addressing. Might as well get mad at 7 for being a prime number.

        Nov 14, 2007 9:25am PST
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        well, it's more complicated then that, but yeah, 3.4ish is where it maxes out. And it's silly to get ups... : bipolar
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          Aww, no I'm not mad. Just didn't realize they count the video memory before counting system memory. See... : changejar419
          • Right, but the alternative is not having your video memory used, which would hurt performance much more t... : bipolar
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            well it can only address a finite amount of memory, so its not really something that can be helped : sexninja!!!!
            • Can't you use PAE? http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366796.aspx : slickdoody
        • man fuck 7 : Mr.SEX
    • At work we put 4GB in our laptops then enable the 3GB switch. : gmd
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  All windows XP is limited.. 32 or 64... you could have 8gigs of RAM on your XP-64 and Windows STILL ... : ShadowRam
  • Er, that's not true. There's an application limit of 2 gigs that you can workaround with command line sw... : bipolar
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  Isn't pretty much every flavor of Windows OS, except for Windows Server 2003 x64, limited to 3GB of RAM? : Ride-My-Rocket
  • Vista 64 isn't limited. It's a bus limitation. : Fyunch Click
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    How does one use more than 3GBs then? I wanna upgrade to 4gbs of ram. : Sgt_Boomstick
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      get a 64bit OS : derelict515
      • ^^^ What he said. x64 = 64-bit. x86 = 32-bit. : Ride-My-Rocket
• Hopefully my 4x1GB order of Corsair XMS from Best Buy Business for $67 goes through. If so, that'll be on... : Jumperus
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  don't you guys know how pointers work? : sludge vohaul
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    I guess not. Please explain them... : Saman
    • They point and laugh : CRasterImage
  • I remember them being unbelievably frustrating to work with when I was new to programming and now I donÃ... : sKetchflow
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  4 gig ram is addressable. This includes CPU cache, Video cards, HD cache, etc etc. so you end up with a b... : Slowtreme
  • exactly. and this isnt a "windows xp" thing or something microsoft did, its just the physical limitations... : sexninja!!!!