FOR SALE: 4*1Gig DDR RAM from proliant server

sp3ctre

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Pics to follow... Yeah yeah, I know this sounds dodgy, I promise you it's not.

I bought it to slap in my PC, but it's ECC ram and my motherboard does not support it. :?

Offers... if not it's going on fleabay!
 
OT sorry, but it's sort of related...Why doesn't windows show 4gb of ram when running in 32bit mode?

Both my work PC and home pc (XP Home and Vista respectively) have 4GB, but both machines only report 3GB.....

Odd :?
 
we have either the long answer or the short answer?

well here is the short answer: Cause Windows XP 32Bit just dont ok!

and the long answer: It is to do with the compilation of the OS which results in a maximum logical memory space that the system is capable of using, the more memory you add the slower/more complex it is to access that memory in an efficient manner therefore as a compromise Micro$oft limit the OS (XP 32Bit in this case) wheras XP 64Bit has a higher limit at the expense of more complicated memory handling (I inadvertantly typed mamory there you can tell where my mind is drifting)

for more info see:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1035670&highlight=/3gb Yawn

http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?p=1019652 snooze

http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/The-4GB-Windows-Memory-Limit-What-does-it-really-mean- Yawn Yawn
 
Purplemattfish said:
we have either the long answer or the short answer?

well here is the short answer: Cause Windows XP 32Bit just dont ok!

and the long answer: It is to do with the compilation of the OS which results in a maximum logical memory space that the system is capable of using, the more memory you add the slower/more complex it is to access that memory in an efficient manner therefore as a compromise Micro$oft limit the OS (XP 32Bit in this case) wheras XP 64Bit has a higher limit at the expense of more complicated memory handling (I inadvertantly typed mamory there you can tell where my mind is drifting)

for more info see:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1035670&highlight=/3gb Yawn

http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?p=1019652 snooze

http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/The-4GB-Windows-Memory-Limit-What-does-it-really-mean- Yawn Yawn
Click to expand...

That's really useful actually.

My main worry was that those dozy twats at Dell hadn't fitted the correct memory into the slots :lol:
 
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