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Old 05-12-2008, 04:01 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by spl00g View Post
not sure if you are aware but XP is a 32 bit system and as a 32 bit system the max memory it can utilize is 3gb

not saying the upgrade wouldn't be useful a year down the road when you switch to vista 64bit. but for right now i'd say you wouldn't notice much difference between 2 and 3 gb memory on XP. I would think other parts of your computer would be lacking before the ram starts to e.g. graphics card or processor.

hope that helps
not sure if you are aware but a 32 but OS has a maximum memory of 4gb. sorry, but im having this same argument with tlarking in another thread.

the reason you see less than 4gb is bc the OS has to address everything else that needs memory first, then it gives whats left of the 4GB addressable space to the RAM.
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