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littlesusie
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June 10th, 2008 11:00
Ram Problem
Hi guys i have just had a technincain come round and fix my pc he instaled a new motherboard and two new graphica cards, i asked him to check a memory issue i been havijg latley and he said he didnt know why it was doing it basically.... I have 4gb ram on my pc and its showing in the bios as 4gb ram but windows and any programmes/games im using in windows shows as 2gb and only use 2gb. How do i sort this ou t?
littlesusie
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Posted June 10th, 2008 11:00
is it very expensive, i heard it was abit unrelaible. The 64 bit one i mean.
- costs less than 150 if you get an OEM version. The only draw back with that is you are your own tech support for os issues..other than that I loaded it to try it out on my rig in a dual boot mode with XP. I played with vista for a week and wiped XP off the system and perfer vista 64 hands over heels.. IT is very stable and very robust to me. I feel it runs better than XP..
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Posted June 10th, 2008 11:00
It is because you are running a 32 bit OS. This is a well documented and known issue. It is due to the way the OS handles the ram allocation. Since you are using dual graphic cards the ram allocation is doubled for the graphic cards.
There is only one work around with this and that is to go with a 64 bit Os which will utilize all the ram that is in the system for programs..