Hello
I've been doing some research and have come to a couple of different conclusions and just ended up confusing myself so I am hoping I could get some help here
I am doing an upgrade to my computer right now ... I am getting a new MB, 6 gigs of memory, video card, CPU ect ... I guess you could say I'm building a new machine almost.
What I was not changing is my OS. But then I heard that my 32bit version of Windows Vista can only read 4 gigs or 3.25 gigs of my memory.
If this is true then am I cheating myself of the rest of the RAM and letting it go to waste ???
I also understood (I am probably wrong) that since my OS only reads the above mentioned ram then it'll dedicate some to the system / apps / then the GPU and if I have a 1gig GPU then I would get 1 gig less of system RAM ... yea that didn't make sense lol...
Now lets say I decide to be lazy and not upgrade my OS and be okay with the outcome would my applications/games utilize all 6 gigs of RAM that I am installing or only what Windows shows. I mean if Windows is running itself on 3 gigs when I really have 6 I dont care. But if my online games are being cheated of an additional 3 or gigs or RAM I will upgrade my OS in a heartbeat.
Please let me know what I should do ...
I've been doing some research and have come to a couple of different conclusions and just ended up confusing myself so I am hoping I could get some help here
I am doing an upgrade to my computer right now ... I am getting a new MB, 6 gigs of memory, video card, CPU ect ... I guess you could say I'm building a new machine almost.
What I was not changing is my OS. But then I heard that my 32bit version of Windows Vista can only read 4 gigs or 3.25 gigs of my memory.
If this is true then am I cheating myself of the rest of the RAM and letting it go to waste ???
I also understood (I am probably wrong) that since my OS only reads the above mentioned ram then it'll dedicate some to the system / apps / then the GPU and if I have a 1gig GPU then I would get 1 gig less of system RAM ... yea that didn't make sense lol...
Now lets say I decide to be lazy and not upgrade my OS and be okay with the outcome would my applications/games utilize all 6 gigs of RAM that I am installing or only what Windows shows. I mean if Windows is running itself on 3 gigs when I really have 6 I dont care. But if my online games are being cheated of an additional 3 or gigs or RAM I will upgrade my OS in a heartbeat.
Please let me know what I should do ...