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Old 04-07-2007, 03:59 AM   #1
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Question Question - Best amount of XP memory?
While windows XP can handle up to 4 gigs of memory I was told that adding more than 2 gigs is a waste of time. Does anyone know why?
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Old 04-07-2007, 05:16 AM   #2
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XP only can "see" 3 gigs, it will not recognize anything over that, but I think there might be some "hacking" that can be done now to change that.
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Old 04-07-2007, 12:05 PM   #3
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Are you sure? According to their web site it can see 4 gigs. But I thought I read somewhere that actually installing 4 gigs would hurt performance for some reason.

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Windows NT 4.0: 4 GB
Windows 2000 Professional: 4 GB
Windows 2000 Standard Server: 4 GB
Windows 2000 Advanced Server: 8GB
Windows 2000 Datacenter Server: 32GB
Windows XP Professional: 4 GB
Windows Server 2003 Web Edition: 2 GB
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition: 4 GB
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition: 32 GB
Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition: 64 GB
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Old 04-09-2007, 06:28 PM   #4
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[quote=AngelArs;15797]Windows XP Professional: 4 GB[quote]

Yeah... but what of the other versions???

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Yeah... but what of the other versions???
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Peep these...

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I think the operative word in the OulZac's post was "see." What an odd lil problem for XP users to have!

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Old 04-09-2007, 10:48 PM   #7
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Thanks, that's just what I need. My windows computer thinks it's Stevie Wonder
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I am currently running 4 gigs of ddr2, which windows sees 3.25 gb of. I am running XP pro. I often wondered if there was a way to get it to read 4 true gigs, but 3.25 is all I get so far.

If you're going to ask why the hell I would even think of running 4 gigs?? It was a total mistake. I got stuck with 2 extra gigs of ram when I built my computer. My fault for double ordering, so with restocking fees, I simply decided to use them instead of trying to sell them back at a much lower price.
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It's possible that your mother board may cause this "read the amount of memory. Some MB can only read so much memory.
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It's possible that your mother board may cause this "read the amount of memory. Some MB can only read so much memory.
I realize that, however, my Gigabyte GA-8I945P Pro did claim to read 4 full gigs of ram.
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Old 04-12-2007, 11:44 AM   #11
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If your BIOS is set up correctly (which I'm assuming it is) then this tuning switch probably has something to do with it
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