Re: Installed 4 GB of memory; only able to use 3,406,240 Bytes
- From: "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:29:44 -0700
On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 17:00:20 +1000, "Faustino"
<mrcunningham1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ken, I added a further 2Gb to my existing 2Gb Kingston Value DDR2 800 (PC
6400) RAM because (a) I might get better gaming performance with > 2 Gb;
Even 2GB is much more than most people can get better performance
with. Most people see no improvement by going over 512MB or so, but
whether more than that improves performance depends on what apps you
run. Some apps can make effective use of more RAM.
Which games you play might make a difference, but since I don't play
any computer games, I personally couldn't tell you which ones would
benefit by more RAM.
(b) it was very cheap at the time
Understood, but whether it helps you, I don't know.
- prices vary a lot, as does the value of the
$A; (c) even if I can't use it all (XP Pro indicates 3.25 Gb), I have four
identical sticks of 1 Gb RAM, very handy if one fails - hardware moves so
fast that I'd be unlikely to find matching RAM later (would that matter?
Yes, it matters. Non-matching RAM can cause severe problems.
Well, I won't need to fi nd out).
"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 12:03:01 -0400, "Charles Elliott"
<elliott.ct@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
By the way, why did you install so much? Regardless of the pointabove, it's very rare that an XP user needs or can make effective use
of even the 3,406,240 bytes that you get.
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