Use 3GB or 4GB RAM in 32 bit OS?

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Rat River Cemetary said:
Because it depends on your hardware configuration. My video card is
512mb so it needs 512mb of address space, a 256mb card would need
256mb of address space. I only have 3.0GB out of 4GB available to
programs. When I did have a 256mb vid card it showed 3.25GB of ram
available.
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I have a 512mb video card and XP shows 3.5 GB of memory.....must be
differences in hardware configurations....
 
Lee said:
Xp sees 3.25GB out of 4GB on my system.
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Interesting that you should mention this, I just took a look again and
now my system is showing 3.25GB too. I assume this has something to do
with the fact that I just installed a GeForce 8600GT into my system,
whereas previously I was using integrated graphics.

Also goes to show that discrete graphics frees up more memory for you
than integrated graphics.

Yousuf Khan
 
Yousuf Khan said:
Interesting that you should mention this, I just took a look again and now
my system is showing 3.25GB too. I assume this has something to do with
the fact that I just installed a GeForce 8600GT into my system, whereas
previously I was using integrated graphics.

Also goes to show that discrete graphics frees up more memory for you than
integrated graphics.

Yousuf Khan
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Y present card has 512mb but the card before that had 256mb and my system
also showed 3.25gb. I bought the 4 gigs so I could upgrade to vista 64 but
it was so bad an OS I went back to XP. I clearly don't see my trying Vista
again now that my system is XP service pack 3.
 
Y present card has 512mb but the card before that had 256mb and my system
also showed 3.25gb. I bought the 4 gigs so I could upgrade to vista 64 but
it was so bad an OS I went back to XP. I clearly don't see my trying Vista
again now that my system is XP service pack 3.
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Yeah, I don't think the video ram actually takes up much system ram
footprint. The video ram is slid through the system ram footprint, in
small chunks, through a fixed-size graphics aperture.

As for why I got 4GB, I simply got it because it was on sale. :-)

I put in Ubuntu as my 64-bit OS, and I'm occasionally dual-booting
into it.

Yousuf Khan
 
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