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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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)

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Xp changed the amount of ram you could use in service pack 2 (I think)

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Just my little two cents:

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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

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