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12 GB RAM? pro help
Name: malu05 Date: January 15, 2004 at 22:54:49 Pacific OS: winXP CPU/Ram: 12gb rdram, 2 x 2.2ghz
Comment:
Well i got a little problem i have just spend a tons of money buying 12 GB RDRam for my Visual Effect Works on PC i usualy use my SGI computer for Vissual FX but i need to work with some Windows app's well WinXP can only use 5.12 GB of my RAM, what do i do? i know that WIN server 2003 can support alot more but i don't want to spend money on that crap
Name: Hooner Date: January 15, 2004 at 23:30:21 Pacific
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Legoland! Polsers! Middlefart!!
I used to holiday in Denmark as a kid :-)
I'm fairly sure that Xp only supports 4 gig of RAM, so the fact that you've got it to recognise 5.12 is strange............
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Response Number 2
Name: malu05 Date: January 16, 2004 at 00:16:57 Pacific
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Well yhea but what to do? i just cant with for Microsoft to finish their LH'... i think it is a sale tekniqe! 4 gb for Xp then you have to buy LH to use more! (a minde of my own.... i hate that bulls---! Linux supports 100000000000000000000000000000000000 ram if you got so maney!)
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Response Number 3
Name: StuartS Date: January 16, 2004 at 00:56:40 Pacific
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You will find the the 4GB limit is not one imposed by Windows, but the CPU itself, unless you are using an Athlon 64.
As Pentium 4/AMD Athlon XP are 32 bit CPUs there is the limt. 2 ^ 32 = 4,294,967,296 or 100000000000000000000000000000000 in binary.
Stuart
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Response Number 4
Name: Hooner Date: January 16, 2004 at 00:58:03 Pacific
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So you're saying that he couldn't even use the amount of RAM he wants in Linux? I find that hard to believe..........
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Response Number 5
Name: StuartS Date: January 16, 2004 at 01:12:54 Pacific
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Whoops. Sorry, just checked. The maximum is 64 Gbs for a Pentium II and above.
The maximum for Windows is 4 GB.
Stuart
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Response Number 6
Name: Hooner Date: January 16, 2004 at 01:30:44 Pacific
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Cool, thought I was goin' mad ;-)
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Response Number 7
Name: malu05 Date: January 16, 2004 at 02:02:47 Pacific
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Hey... help me! What to do?
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Response Number 8
Name: Hooner Date: January 16, 2004 at 02:47:53 Pacific
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You can either buy Linux or Server 2003, Linux supports stupid amounts of memory, Server 2003 allows up to 16 gig.
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Response Number 9
Name: sarissi Date: January 16, 2004 at 13:14:28 Pacific
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Linux supports up to 64 GB of RAM (memory), at least my Mandrake Linux 9.1 Powerpack does. No way my mobo will handle that. 4 GB is the max on this one (Chaintech 7VJL Deluxe Apogee). I also have Suse 9.0 Pro here (cd set for evaluation purposes only), and am not sure about that one.
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Response Number 10
Name: bart2 Date: January 16, 2004 at 19:52:29 Pacific
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Hmmmm. I wonder how they get around the 4gb limit for a 32 bit machine?
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