Anyone have 4 gigs installed in 32 bit XP/Vista?

[hanselthecaretaker]

I upgraded to 4 in XP sp3 and of course due to hardware MMIO address space allocations I'm left with about 3.4 of usable physical RAM for OS applications. I think it's still better than just 2 gigs, although some say 2 is the "sweet spot" for a 32 bit OS.



Any opinions on which is better (2 or 4)? I did notice 4 being faster in general. Some have said that 2 is more stable though, and anything more yields negligible gains.

 

[Razorguns]

me. My Vista is insane. Powerful enough to launch a nuke at the sun.

r

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

me. My Vista is insane. Powerful enough to launch a nuke at the sun.

r

32 bit?

 

[Razorguns]

32 bit?

Fuck. Yeah. No 64-bit driver bullshit issues here.

r

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Fuck. Yeah. No 64-bit driver bullshit issues here.

r

Yeah it'll be at least another year before most of that is ironed out. Hopefully Windows 7 has the 64/32 bit combo like they do with Vista so we can dual boot with the future in mind.

 

[Dial_tone]

The extra is wasted if you don't use it. There aren't many occasions I need more than 2GB at work but with the cost being so low there is no reason not to go with 4GB.

 

[mrplunkey]

You can use more than 2GB if you put two quarters in the slot instead of one when you start-up the Windoze game.

Or you can buy a real computer with a real operating system.

 

[Razorguns]

You can use more than 2GB if you put two quarters in the slot instead of one when you start-up the Windoze game.

Or you can buy a real computer with a real operating system.

Like Linux...oowwww.

Tell that to a chick.

r

 

[Dial_tone]

Like Linux...oowwww.

Tell that to a chick.

r

You could tell her you can take her to Vegas for a week with the money you saved by not buying Windows, MS Office and Photoshop.

 

[UA_Iron]

I run 8gb with XP 64 at home. At work 11gb on XP 64. We'll be upgrading to 8-core systems with 16gb of RAM soon here at work too.

Dude, 64 bit driver issues? Hardly anymore. If you would have asked me 3 years ago what I thought of XP 64 I would have said DONT DO IT.

Driver support is excellent anymore.

And yes, I believe 4gb is better than 2gb for 32 bit windows. It's not really wasted per say. It gets kind of complicated addressing that remaining memory. You can flip the /4gb switch - google it.

IT's a waste not having 4gb of memory. It's dirt cheap anymore! You can pick it up some places for like 20 bucks after rebate, or 35 with free shipping no rebate.