dave1701
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Good to hear, thanks for your help.
Is it worth upgrading to 64bit?
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Good to hear, thanks for your help.
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More RAM you add,more RAM is subtracted by Windows 7 for it's general functions (HDD,GPU,kernel,foreground and background executions...etc...).
So if you have 2 GB of RAM memory Windows 7 will subtract a specific amount of RAM for it's executions and leave some amount of RAM free for YOU.If you have 4 GB of RAM,Windows 7 will do completely the same thing only it will subtract MORE RAM in 4 GB RAM systems than it does in 2 GB RAM systems and again leave some amount of RAM free for YOU.
Windows 7 never subtracts the same amount of RAM on every system.It subtracts the specific amount of RAM depending on how much RAM your system has.Because if Windows 7 ALWAYS takes the SAME amount of RAM (but it does not) then that would make it impossible to work on systems with 256 or 512 MB of RAM memory lol.
So that is why Windows 7 is programmed to take a specific amount of RAM memory according to the RAM memory capacity that your system has.
Cheers!
tremmor
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Liked it Stars and made sense to me. Like said here i have XP and 4 gig and shows 3-/2 gig. Finish it up and get'er done if ya know the answer. How in the blue moon because i forgot where is all the memory being allocated. More of interest than anything else.
I couldn't find it.
I couldn't find it.
Bigfella is right on this one.
87dtna, your not even getting the concept of what is being discussed here between the way a 32bit Os vs. a 64bit OS uses memory if you have 4gb. or more of memory installed. Instead of argueing about it, read up on it.
Stars, your right on, on some things, but your way off in left field on some of the B/S your stating. Windows XP/Vista and 7 32bit substract memory over the max limit of 4gb. the exact same way, and it has nothing to do with the way each system treats pagefile. The two are not one in the same and the 32bit limit has nothing to do with the way pagefile is address between the systems Two different thing and are not related to each other.
87dtna, your not even getting the concept of what is being discussed here between the way a 32bit Os vs. a 64bit OS uses memory if you have 4gb. or more of memory installed. Instead of argueing about it, read up on it.
Stars, your right on, on some things, but your way off in left field on some of the B/S your stating. Windows XP/Vista and 7 32bit substract memory over the max limit of 4gb. the exact same way, and it has nothing to do with the way each system treats pagefile. The two are not one in the same and the 32bit limit has nothing to do with the way pagefile is address between the systems Two different thing and are not related to each other.
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Okedokey
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Yep, spot on.
87dtna, read up on memory mapping in 32bit Windows. Maximum space is 2^32. What ever is left over after mapping peripherals is available to be mapped in system RAM.
Wow really? I was asking questions how is that arguing? Did you miss posts 37 and 40 or something where I asked like 5 questions? I didn't know asking questions was arguing, I think I said I don't understand several times.
I specificallly asked bigfella to explain, and he did so in post 41 in which I was satisfied with his answer. Your post about me was not necessary whatsoever.
Okedokey
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He said that because this is how you ask 'questions':
You clearly know very little about computers (PSU thread comes to mind too) and now this. Please have some humility. Strangle was simply (if im right) asking you to read and think before saying something as above. Especially when (as proven) you have no idea.
Strangle was making a clear and accurate point. Nothing more.
Really this post is over, the OP has had his answer.
And one final comment, what the hell does this mean?:
WTF?
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You clearly know very little about computers (PSU thread comes to mind too) and now this. Please have some humility. Strangle was simply (if im right) asking you to read and think before saying something as above. Especially when (as proven) you have no idea.
Shut up. Atleast I know there are quad core mobile I7's you tool. Why don't you check some of the other threads you posted in and reply to those. You don't know everything, and I don't claim to like you do.
Okedokey
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Lol
Yeah I did laugh pretty hard when you said that all mobile I7's are dual cores....when's there's actually more quads than dual cores.
I know more about hardware than software, which is why I wasn't being an arrogant prick (as you always are no matter what even if you are wrong) about it and asking questions....saying it didn't make sense. I actually complemented you by saying you explained it to my satisfaction (something you would never ever even consider doing because of your vast superiority of knowledge), and yet in your arrogant know it all jerk fashion you have to keep pushing it with an attempt to smash me down more when I was never really arguing to being with. I garauntee that you believe you know the most about computers on this forum. The real truth is some of us have better areas of knowledge than others.
I know more about hardware than software, which is why I wasn't being an arrogant prick (as you always are no matter what even if you are wrong) about it and asking questions....saying it didn't make sense. I actually complemented you by saying you explained it to my satisfaction (something you would never ever even consider doing because of your vast superiority of knowledge), and yet in your arrogant know it all jerk fashion you have to keep pushing it with an attempt to smash me down more when I was never really arguing to being with. I garauntee that you believe you know the most about computers on this forum. The real truth is some of us have better areas of knowledge than others.
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In general 64-bit is the way to go today unless you use your computer for minimal and trivial tasks.
If you're in the need of over 4 GB's then you need a 64-bit system.
More memory can increase speed by having the swap-algorithm in your operating system not use your page-file as much as it typically would on a low-memory system. Reading/Writing your page file incurs a huge performance penalty. If you add too much memory you will not see the same incremental performance as there comes a point where the swap file is either unused (in some operating systems), or used regardless of how much extra memory you have.
If you're in the need of over 4 GB's then you need a 64-bit system.
More memory can increase speed by having the swap-algorithm in your operating system not use your page-file as much as it typically would on a low-memory system. Reading/Writing your page file incurs a huge performance penalty. If you add too much memory you will not see the same incremental performance as there comes a point where the swap file is either unused (in some operating systems), or used regardless of how much extra memory you have.
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LoL you people argue about stupid operating systems.What's wrong with you looooooool.It's just Windows OS... xD xD xD
I would be arguing about FOOD,but not WINDOWS
I would be arguing about FOOD,but not WINDOWS
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Hehehe.I like pizza called Capriciosa
And of course my favorite drink is chocolate milk =D
I am not fat by the way lol.Many people think I am considering what I eat and drink,but I am not haha xD
Not everything gets mapped into the cpu's address space. hdd cache for example is not. About vram, usually only 256 MB per gpu is mapped.