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Hey guys.

I have a PC with windows XP and 2gigs of ram. I have heard that having more than 2gigs with XP is a complete waste as XP will never use anything more than 2. Is this true? If I add 2 more gigs to make 4 will it make any difference at all? Will it be worth it?

Thanks very much.
 
at the current price of memory do it man

it does make a difference but not a huge one in xp

some games might use 2 gig or memory like crysis and thats when having more will be better

your windows install will only see 3 gigs though unless you got 64 bit xp
 
Thanks for the reply mate.. Yeah its quite cheap.. Im using an AMD so i believe DDR ram doesnt work with it? BTW how do you know if its 64bit?
Thanks again
 
o crap if you using ddr 400 then its not that cheap

right click my computer then properties if you dont see windows xp 64 bit then its 32 bit :)
 
*x86 for 64-bit*
And even with 64-bit, you can only have a maximum of 3.4 gigs of ram.
 
Luf said:
Hey guys.

I have a PC with windows XP and 2gigs of ram. I have heard that having more than 2gigs with XP is a complete waste as XP will never use anything more than 2. Is this true? If I add 2 more gigs to make 4 will it make any difference at all? Will it be worth it?

Thanks very much.
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More than 2 gigs will make no difference in normal XP usage. In some very new games it might more, but its not like you are going to suffer if you dont have more.
 
You won't need 4GB if you have an old DDR 400 (939) AMD system. You can't be playing any games where you need more than 2GB of RAM seeing as your CPU, and probably the rest of your system, will be more of a bottleneck.

Being on 32bit XP as well I definitely wouldn't bother unless you use any specific apps that need more than 2GB.
 
Games such as Oblivion and Crysis will use more than 2GB if available, but you'll be just fine with 2GB :)
 
WKJ?:beanie said:
Games such as Oblivion and Crysis will use more than 2GB if available, but you'll be just fine with 2GB :)
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x2 Take it if you have the cash, Windows XP dedicates 2GB to the Kernal Space and the other 2GB to application space, so you have 2gb just for the game, in theory but 2GB is enough.
 
Gnome said:
x2 Take it if you have the cash, Windows XP dedicates 2GB to the Kernal Space and the other 2GB to application space, so you have 2gb just for the game, in theory...
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And I think the maximum amount of RAM Windows XP can assign to a single application is 2GB (might be wrong, though) :)
 
WKJ?:beanie said:
And I think the maximum amount of RAM Windows XP can assign to a single application is 2GB (might be wrong, though) :)
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Yup ;) There is a switch you can add to boot.ini that'll make kernal space 1gb and application space 3gb but it caused the PC to become very unstable when Anandtech (I think it was them) tested it. And the Application must actually support larger than 2gb address space for it to work :(
 
Gnome said:
Yup ;) There is a switch you can add to boot.ini that'll make kernal space 1gb and application space 3gb but it caused the PC to become very unstable when Anandtech (I think it was them) tested it. And the Application must actually support larger than 2gb address space for it to work :(
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Too much effort for me :D
 
Gnome said:
x2 Take it if you have the cash, Windows XP dedicates 2GB to the Kernal Space and the other 2GB to application space, so you have 2gb just for the game, in theory but 2GB is enough.
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The point is if he's running a 939 AMD system (clarify?) then 2GB is definitely enough, he should use his money on a new board and chip before spending on RAM, even if it is only R500. I doubt he would see any real benfit especially on 32bit.
 
Thanks so much guys for your replys. BTW i got an AMD Athlon 64 x2 dual core processor 4200+. Not use if that is a 939 AMD System you guys are talking about.
 
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