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Name: funk3r
Date: February 8, 2008 at 12:36:04 Pacific
Subject: vista and 4 gigs
OS: Vista
CPU/Ram: q6600 - 4 gigs
Model/Manufacturer: homebuilt

Comment:

So I know that I need a 64 bit version of windows to get the 4 gigs, but since it shows up on my machine as 3 gigs, I was wondering what happens with that extra 1 gig. Does it get used but not reported; is it allocated for video card usage?

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Response Number 1

Name: Cobra_R
Date: February 8, 2008 at 12:44:54 Pacific

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This should explain to you in very good detail what's going on with the remainder of that GB of ram.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/ar...

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Response Number 2

Name: funk3r
Date: February 8, 2008 at 13:22:21 Pacific

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thanks for the link cobra, that answered most, if not all my questions.

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Response Number 3

Name: suatcini
Date: February 9, 2008 at 01:34:06 Pacific

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SP1 is said to show all 4 GB in Computer Properties window but the same restrictions will apply; namely, noone will be able to use 4 GB due to x86 structure.
Regards
SuatCINI

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Name: Cobra_R
Date: February 9, 2008 at 11:54:20 Pacific

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and that will confuse a lot of people into think it can use all 4gb of ram when it won't. This is why MS should put an * next to reading the 4GB of ram.

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Response Number 5

Name: Death_Knight
Date: February 11, 2008 at 20:41:18 Pacific

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All my 4gigs shows up as 4096MB, my assumption is you have to enable an option in BIOS. There's a Memory mapping feature in the BIOS (asus motherboard as least) you have to enable that in order to read all your memory.

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