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slmclarengt 02-01-2008 23:51

The dreaded acceptance...
 
A bit emo-esque of a title but I'm coming to accept 6GB RAM is not as useful as I imagined it. Funny thing is, I thought it would be useful in Lord of the Rings, but since my friend who I play LOTR with only plays COD4:MW now like me, we don't play it anymore. So now I have 6GB of OCZ RAM, but rarely if ever does my computer use it. Granted, I could load into Vista where resources are devoured at a 2x XP level :-) - Vista runs idle with about 1.5GB of my RAM.

I'm looking to find some way to use my extra RAM but I can't seem to see anything. Any ideas? :-)

Slmclarengt

P.S. At worst, it's just help for future proofing.

Roach 02-02-2008 01:26

Re: The dreaded acceptance...
 
XP cant recognize RAM sizes beyond 3GB, you have to have a 64-Bit OS (i.e. Vista Ultimate) to take advantage of RAM sizes greater than 4GB.

Unless something has happened in XP that I am not privy to.

slmclarengt 02-02-2008 01:29

Re: The dreaded acceptance...
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Roach (Post 580745)
XP cant recognize RAM sizes beyond 3GB, you have to have a 64-Bit OS (i.e. Vista Ultimate) to take advantage of RAM sizes greater than 4GB.

Unless something has happened in XP that I am not privy to.

I forgot to mention I run XP and Vista 64. Luckily you didn't make insult me otherwise I would've been very bothered.

Slmclarengt

PM 02-02-2008 11:57

Re: The dreaded acceptance...
 
That much RAM may be good for running another OS session in some virtualisation software thing.

kp_uparrow 02-02-2008 13:12

Re: The dreaded acceptance...
 
compute pi

slmclarengt 02-02-2008 14:23

Re: The dreaded acceptance...
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by kp_uparrow (Post 580895)
compute pi

Beat ya to that one. Already computed pi to approximately 4 billion decimal places using Super Pi :-)

@ PM - I may actually do just that; perhaps I'll run my Vista 64 simultaneously using Virtualization along with my XP 64 - if only I had a quad-core so I could allocate 2 cores to each OS...

Slmclarengt

stupok 02-03-2008 00:34

Re: The dreaded acceptance...
 
Conquer the internet.

slmclarengt 02-03-2008 01:22

Re: The dreaded acceptance...
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by stupok69 (Post 581113)
Conquer the internet.

Now that's a goal I have yet to complete. Man if I downloaded the internet, I'd have more "pr0n" than the world has people...

Slmclarengt

tentative 02-04-2008 05:47

Re: The dreaded acceptance...
 
you could make a mini-stonehenge with sticks of ram.

Zenith77 02-04-2008 07:55

Re: The dreaded acceptance...
 
Launch crysis multiple times. Then again, this may require more processor power than anything.


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