Porkyxi Posted October 15, 2009 Member ID: 99 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 56 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 107 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 6 Achievement Points: 1111 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 30, 2023 Birthday: 09/14/1960 Device: Windows Share Posted October 15, 2009 am i wrong or does winxp only support 2 gigs of ram?..i need some more ram ,have 2gigs now,but i thought it only will recognize 2gigs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ph4nt0m Posted October 15, 2009 Member ID: 1 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 39 Topic Count: 162 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 1909 Content Per Day: 0.42 Reputation: 121 Achievement Points: 11489 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 12/06/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 4, 2020 Birthday: 06/28/1975 Share Posted October 15, 2009 It depends if its 32bit or 64 bit, I used to run 4 gig ddr2 under XP Pro 32bit and the system only displayed 3.25 gig, apparently the other 750 meg is needed by the motherboard but i may be wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porkyxi Posted October 15, 2009 Member ID: 99 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 56 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 107 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 6 Achievement Points: 1111 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 30, 2023 Birthday: 09/14/1960 Device: Windows Author Share Posted October 15, 2009 i think its just 32 ..its winxp media center...my photoshop and painting programs run very slow.i have a ati 4850 card and 2 gigs ram...just thinking if i got more ram, would help the lag...and wouldnt hurt if i Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X-RayXI Posted October 15, 2009 Member ID: 133 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 77 Topic Count: 602 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 6882 Content Per Day: 1.29 Reputation: 1370 Achievement Points: 44077 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Tuesday at 12:37 AM Birthday: 12/12/1971 Device: Windows Share Posted October 15, 2009 ph4nt0m It depends if its 32bit or 64 bit, I used to run 4 gig ddr2 under XP Pro 32bit and the system only displayed 3.25 gig, apparently the other 750 meg is needed by the motherboard but i may be wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
T-Mouse Posted October 15, 2009 Member ID: 10 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 35 Topic Count: 80 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1071 Content Per Day: 0.20 Reputation: 7 Achievement Points: 6264 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 3, 2013 Birthday: 09/03/1993 Share Posted October 15, 2009 2 GB of RAM shouldn't be causing any lag.. you won't get any ridiculous framerates, but I have 2 GB of 667 MHz DDR2, an Nvidia 9800 GTX and a 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo.. I've never had any real problems with lag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickTheGrip Posted October 15, 2009 Member ID: 177 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 16 Topic Count: 145 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1669 Content Per Day: 0.31 Reputation: 281 Achievement Points: 10581 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 27, 2023 Birthday: 05/08/1961 Device: iPhone Share Posted October 15, 2009 Actually 32 bit systems support, in theory, exaclty 4GB of RAM, however most systems will hog out aroud 500MB to 750MB for "housekeeping". 32 bits is 2 to the power of 32, or 4,294,967,295, which is exactly 4GB. Also remember that PCI-E maps video memory to this available address area. The larger your video card memory, the less you might seem to have, although its all being used. The big, expensive, answer is to go to a 64-bit system. basically 64-bit allows more RAM than you could ever need (16.8 million terabytes) although most manufacturers place an artificial limit in there to clamp it at, say, 128GB (Still a bloody lot) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Labob Posted October 15, 2009 Member ID: 42 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 50 Topic Count: 338 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 8258 Content Per Day: 1.55 Reputation: 5964 Achievement Points: 53556 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 12 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 3 hours ago Birthday: 01/30/1959 Device: Windows Share Posted October 15, 2009 Xp changed the amount of ram you could use in service pack 2 (I think) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Brotrinde Posted October 16, 2009 Member ID: 363 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 2 Topic Count: 19 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 296 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 1674 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/13/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 9, 2021 Birthday: 12/13/1977 Share Posted October 16, 2009 Just my little two cents: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROCKAPE Posted October 16, 2009 Member ID: 4 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 169 Topic Count: 1090 Topics Per Day: 0.20 Content Count: 5149 Content Per Day: 0.97 Reputation: 3004 Achievement Points: 43495 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 14 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 7 hours ago Birthday: 08/16/1967 Device: Windows Share Posted October 16, 2009 The Crucial website has a scan facility to check your pc and tell you what ram you have installed and what your pc will take,its always good to check out your motherboard maufacturer website but this may http://www.crucial.com/uk/?click=true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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