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heatsink007

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hi everybody ..

i heard about overclockersclub.com from many sites and forum at last I'm a member here ,and I'm so proud of my membership.

but i think i need to match some minimum requirements here, so please take a look at my PC Specs. and tell me what you think.

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windows xp sp2 ,32 Bit ,up-to date

MB gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6 V1.0

Intel core2 quad Q6600 2.4 ,@3.4 GHz overclocked

Air Cooler thermaltake BigTyp 120VX

RAM 4 GB (4 X King max KLDD48F-B8KB5 1GB DDR2 PC2-6400U) ,@956 MHz overclocked

ATI Radeon HD3870 GDDR4 (512 MB, 860 2X1.29GHz PCIe 2.00 X16) overclocked

creative sound blaster audigy2 (5.1 channels)

2 X WD 160 GB SATAII hard drive At Raid0

LCD Philips 19" ,1280x1024 ,32 Bit ,refresh rate 75 hertz

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i know my PC's Specs. is not the specs. that every one dream about.

 

sorry for my English

Edited by heatsink007

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welcome to the club.... hey can 4gb ram support 32bit OS?

 

No, it only goes up to 3GB support on XP. I think it's 8GB on Vista 32.

 

I had that problem when I first bought my ram, because my OS didn't recognize the extra GB.

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welcome to the club.... hey can 4gb ram support 32bit OS?

 

Your question is backwards and I think you've asked it before. Anyway it depends I have seen a few rigs running 32bit that actually register almost all 4 gigs and I've seen others that only register 2.5. Generally the answer to that question is no it will only see about 3 but it depends on your system specs and how it's all balanced out. If you want to use 4gb of ram or more it'd be a good idea to run a 64bit OS.

 

BTW Kuronin it's the same on Vista

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Anyway it depends I have seen a few rigs running 32bit that actually register all 4 gigs and I've seen others that only register 2.5. Generally the answer to that question is no it will only see about 3 but it depends on your system specs and how it's all balanced out. If you want to use 4gb of ram or more it'd be a good idea to run a 64bit OS.

 

what do u mean by DEPENDS???

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what do u mean by DEPENDS???

 

It depends on other RAM in the system, such as the graphics card. I believe that if a graphics card has 1GB of some type of GDDR and you have 4GB of RAM in the system, a 32-bit operating system will only recognize 3GB of that total. Same thing would go for a 512MB graphics card, as the 32-bit operating system would only recognize approximately 3.5GB of total system memory. Again, I don't know this for sure, but it's what I think.

 

By the way, seems like you're hijacking this thread a bit. I do think you have asked about this somewhere before as well.

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