PC crashing woes...

[Flibster]

Originally Posted by Jhadur

Out of interest, why?

32bit OS's will see a maximum of 4gb of memory across the board. Including graphics card memory etc...

64bit will go into the tb's of ram iirc.

[divine]

Originally Posted by Jhadur

Out of interest, why?

32 can only address up to 4GB of memory space (and consumer lever OSs don't allow extended mapping)

The net result is with 32 bit OSs you usually only get access to about 3.25-3.75GB of RAM once other things like PCI buses have been taken care of.

@ Mark - there is a CPU, it's under the hard drives

[Mark]

What was that about a CPU?

(Yes, I edited my post, several times).

PS - 32-bit Linux can 'see' the full 4GB. It's only Microsoft that is RAM challenged by graphics card memory.

[divine]

You were right about sums though, that lot comes to £557 not £484.

I was wondering how he was managing so much more than what I had

[divine]

Originally Posted by Mark

PS - 32-bit Linux can 'see' the full 4GB. It's only Microsoft that is RAM challenged by graphics card memory.

PAE - something Windows only has in server OSs IIRC.

edit - or not, they have it but artificially limit 32bit to 4GB for driver reasons apparantly.

[Flibster]

Originally Posted by divine

You were right about sums though, that lot comes to £557 not £484.

I was wondering how he was managing so much more than what I had

Ok - I copied the wrong value - thats pre-tax.

Bum.