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Old 02-01-2008 , 23:51   The dreaded acceptance...
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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? :-)

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P.S. At worst, it's just help for future proofing.
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Old 02-02-2008 , 01:26   Re: The dreaded acceptance...
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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.
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Old 02-02-2008 , 01:29   Re: The dreaded acceptance...
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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.

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Old 02-02-2008 , 11:57   Re: The dreaded acceptance...
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That much RAM may be good for running another OS session in some virtualisation software thing.
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Old 02-02-2008 , 13:12   Re: The dreaded acceptance...
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compute pi
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Old 02-02-2008 , 14:23   Re: The dreaded acceptance...
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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...

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Old 02-03-2008 , 00:34   Re: The dreaded acceptance...
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Conquer the internet.
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Old 02-03-2008 , 01:22   Re: The dreaded acceptance...
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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...

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Old 02-04-2008 , 05:47   Re: The dreaded acceptance...
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you could make a mini-stonehenge with sticks of ram.
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Old 02-04-2008 , 07:55   Re: The dreaded acceptance...
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Launch crysis multiple times. Then again, this may require more processor power than anything.
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