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05-14-2008, 06:38 AM
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|  Over 4 gigs in 32bit OS. Okay, well at Christmas im gonna be getting the following: Intel Q9550 2.8ghz 2x 4870X2 2x2gigs g.Skill DDR2 ASUS P5E x38 Motherboard Now, im obviously gonna put Windows 64bit edition as the main OS, but some games and such wont be compatible with 64bit Windows, so if i put 32bit Windows as a secondary OS and boot into that to play games and use programs that wont work on 64bit Windows will i get errors or will it just not read all the memory. What will happen?
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05-14-2008, 06:53 AM
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| Re: Over 4 gigs in 32bit OS. It won't read all the memory but will work.
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05-14-2008, 07:21 AM
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| Re: Over 4 gigs in 32bit OS. So if i have 4 gigs ram and 2gigs of vram, how will it distribute it. Like, will it be 2 gigs ram and 1.5gigs vram? How will that work?
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05-14-2008, 07:29 AM
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| Re: Over 4 gigs in 32bit OS. no vram is a totally different thing. it will read somthing like 3.5gb of ram and 2gb of vram
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05-14-2008, 07:50 AM
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| Re: Over 4 gigs in 32bit OS. Quote:
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05-14-2008, 08:25 AM
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| Re: Over 4 gigs in 32bit OS. How come i kept hearing you guys say it was 4gigs max ram including vram?
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05-14-2008, 09:15 AM
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| Re: Over 4 gigs in 32bit OS. Quote:
I've got 2 x 512MB 3870's, and 4GB RAM. XP 32 sees 3GB.
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05-14-2008, 09:22 AM
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 | Re: Over 4 gigs in 32bit OS. Say you have 4 gig of ram and a 512 mb video card, then your system will recognize 3.5gig. In theory if you had no graphics card then it would pick up 4gig but i am sure that onboard will have a small amount of mb.
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05-14-2008, 10:46 AM
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| Re: Over 4 gigs in 32bit OS. if you have 4gb system mem and you have 2 4870x2 cards with 1gb, then your system will only see 2gb
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05-14-2008, 06:10 PM
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| Re: Over 4 gigs in 32bit OS. I think the other guys were thinking of Virtual ram. Which makes me wonder how does virtual ram work. Can you have 4gb of ram and another 4gb of virtual ram on the hdd or no? I assumed no...
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