Virtual Memory??
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Johnnyboy0056
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as seen on:
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/virtual-memory1.htm
For example, if you load the operating system, an e-mail program, a Web browser and word processor into RAM simultaneously, 32 megabytes is not enough to hold it all. If there were no such thing as virtual memory, then once you filled up the available RAM your computer would have to say, "Sorry, you can not load any more applications. Please close another application to load a new one." With virtual memory, what the computer can do is look at RAM for areas that have not been used recently and copy them onto the hard disk. This frees up space in RAM to load the new application.
theres a diagram on the site to help u understand a little better too.
basically, it is ur hard drive acting as ram in order for your computer to do more.
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/virtual-memory1.htm
For example, if you load the operating system, an e-mail program, a Web browser and word processor into RAM simultaneously, 32 megabytes is not enough to hold it all. If there were no such thing as virtual memory, then once you filled up the available RAM your computer would have to say, "Sorry, you can not load any more applications. Please close another application to load a new one." With virtual memory, what the computer can do is look at RAM for areas that have not been used recently and copy them onto the hard disk. This frees up space in RAM to load the new application.
theres a diagram on the site to help u understand a little better too.
basically, it is ur hard drive acting as ram in order for your computer to do more.
if i can afford to get 2 gigs of ram im just gonna buy a faster processor which would do much better than 2 gigs of ram imo, 1gig of ram is plenty and im a gamer so i need lots of resources and 1gig has never failed me, maybe cause im running dual channel but i just think i will never need 2 gig for a while tell half life 3 or doom 4 comes out or maybe battlefield 3 