Chinooks_FURY Posted December 28, 2006 Posted December 28, 2006 I have been doing a lot of surfing of late, preparing to build my first C2D rig and I have noticed that many people are posting that they are running 4 GB's of DDR2 RAM in their new Conroe rigs. Is this optimal for a C2D setup? Would that be 4 - 1GB sticks in dual channel??? I thought that Windoze didn't recognize more than 2 GB's. Thanks in advance and Go Aggies! Beat dem Bears!!! :cool: :cool: :cool: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redbeaver Posted December 28, 2006 Posted December 28, 2006 i believe windows can. but the question remains, do u actually USE 4gb? i doubt it. i got 2gb and i never uses the pagefile. ever. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
-CsA-TAZ Posted December 28, 2006 Posted December 28, 2006 As always it depends on what you do with your PC, from a gaming POV then nope not really needed, if however you plan to run Vista and do heavy video or photo editing then yep 4 gig would help, not sure if XP will show more than 3 gig of ram, and not sure if that means you will only be using 3 gig of ram or what? sure someone will shead some light on that for ya! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
225Slant6 Posted December 28, 2006 Posted December 28, 2006 Windows XP 32 bit only sees 3.25GB of RAM. I am running right now 4GB of Ram (though it only shows 3.25GB), I see no difference in games between 2GB and 3.25GB. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollietwinam Posted December 28, 2006 Posted December 28, 2006 XP won't show anymore than about 3.4gB I think. Plus who uses 4gB of RAM? Very Heavy Video editing perhaps, that's about it =) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_bowtie Posted December 29, 2006 Posted December 29, 2006 xp64 will utilize and recognize all 4 gig... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
p0tter Posted December 29, 2006 Posted December 29, 2006 G.SKILL 4GB(2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Windows X64 or Vista will ultilize 4GB Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
p0tter Posted December 29, 2006 Posted December 29, 2006 Windows X64 or Vista will ultilize 4GB Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
war59312 Posted December 29, 2006 Posted December 29, 2006 What about Microsoft Windows Server R2 Enterprise Edition SP2? Update: OK, I see "Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition, supports up to 1 TB of physical RAM on 64-bit systems.". Um what about 32-bit and with SP2? Never mind I found it: "Maximum: 64 GB for x86-based computers". SP2 for x64 is max of 2 TB of RAM. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redbeaver Posted December 29, 2006 Posted December 29, 2006 G.SKILL 4GB(2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Windows X64 or Vista will ultilize 4GB holy fudge! they got 2Gb stick now??? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DaddyD302 Posted December 30, 2006 Posted December 30, 2006 holy fudge! they got 2Gb stick now??? Ummm look at that price, lol. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
centy Posted January 3, 2007 Posted January 3, 2007 Price seems fair to me?? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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