Lol Murkrow, nice way to point that out.
[QUOTE=Hawx;30185480]Oh. Thats a pile of pish then :sigh:[/QUOTE]
Get 64bit, have a memory limit up to a TB or two.
Yeah, speaking to my cousin. He's going to go get the Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. So I can just upgrade from the 32 bit version.
Make sure it's the upgrade one
Just get an iso of the OS, your license is for 64 and 32bit versions.
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;30185512]Get 64bit, have a memory limit up to a TB or two.[/QUOTE]
x86-64 has a theoretical limit of 16 exabytes (16777216 terabytes). The architecture can do that much, and software should work with up to that amount.
However, to reduce costs, current processors and hardware limit it to 256 terabytes. And, for whatever reason, Windows will only work with 16 terabytes.
However, since that's way, way more than all but the most balls-out expensive servers have, nobody really cares.
great job you bought the wrong windows
So pissed I can't use my full 24 terabytes..
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[QUOTE=Practical;30193068]great job you bought the wrong windows[/QUOTE]
No, since W7 32 and 64 keys are interchangable.
32 bit is the problem
[QUOTE=zzlawlzz;30202771]32 bit is the problem[/QUOTE]
That was already pointed out.
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[QUOTE=Murkrow;30185354][img]http://www.shrani.si/f/2k/SX/3cERN4qp/just-fyi.png[/img][/QUOTE]
lol page stretch
Is more than that really needed for gaming though?
What you could do is use 2gb ram for Win7 32 bit, and use the 3gb for a ramdisk. Then put your pagefile on the ramdisk. You'll have a smoking fast pagefile, and you won't need to upgrade to 64bit to get good use of the extra ram.
In 32bit Windows I don't think any single application, such as a game, can use more than 2gb of ram. Yes you can do some large allocation hack, but I'm talking in normal use. So to get maximum use out of that ram I'd create a ramdisk.
edit: I got the idea [url=http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ram-memory-upgrade,2778-3.html]here[/url]
[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;30204576]In 32bit Windows I don't think any single application, such as a game, can use more than 2gb of ram. [/QUOTE]
I have never seen anything except Firefox use that much RAM on its own
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Or Brink minimised before they patched it, hit 5GB or so
[QUOTE=Darkimmortal;30204595]I have never seen anything except Firefox use that much RAM on its own
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Or Brink minimised before they patched it, hit 5GB or so[/QUOTE]
Run a video/3d editing software with some heavy scene and you will see more than 2gb.
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