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My son runs 4 gig and server 2003 because it allows him to eassily
reduce the modules loaded to what he actually needs. He runs filter
arrays that work much faster when parts don't have to be swapped out.
Nathan McNulty wrote:
> One nice thing about having that much RAM is you can load the entire
> Operating System into the memory and not even have to use a pagefile
> while you're at it.
>
> Nathan McNulty
>
> Kevin wrote:
>
>> OK. I just have to know. What are you running that would require 4
>> GB of
>> RAM? I have a friend that is a professional graphics artist, a special
>> effects technician who works with Computer Generated Imaging on a huge
>> scale. His pet system is a machine he built especially for his craft
>> and it
>> has an Athlon 3000+ processor, tweaked up for performance, two 200 GB
>> 7200
>> rpm hard drives, a 10000 rpm drive, DVD drive, DVD -/+ RW drive and two
>> Nvidia 256 MB graphics cards. It has a total of 1.5 GB of DDR RAM.
>> He does
>> stuff you wouldn't believe with this machine and when he is not
>> working he
>> can run Unreal Tournament or Farside or Halo at resolutions like 1600
>> x 1280
>> all day long. 4 GB of RAM is amazing! I was just curious.
>>
>> "Sylvain Deschamps - CD Info" <sdeschamps@cdinfo.com> wrote in message
>> news:c6EHc.162$sX6.3391@news20.bellglobal.com...
>>
>>> Windows XP is only recognizing 3.37gb (!?)
>>>
>>> Any idea? We already contacted Intel and they said that the 865GBFL had
>>
>>
>> no
>>
>>> problem running with 4gb of ram in Windows XP.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Sylvain
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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