MetalOwns
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I've heard PC's idle @ 55% on 2GB of ram in Vista.
No, mine uses under 40% most of the time.
I've heard PC's idle @ 55% on 2GB of ram in Vista.
Your saying Vista 32bit will run with 4GB of ram, plus video card memory?
Also none of you answered my question lol.
probably not, due to all the piracy going around
Yes it should be more than enough even with integrated video using up 256MB of system memory as long as nothing else is a bottleneck but it also depends on what programs you have running in the background, dont want to tell you it will run smoothly but yet you have Norton Systemworks eatting up all your ram and other ram munching programs running at startup
All 32bit operating systems can see a maximum of 4GB. It is a mathematical limit, not the OS. Vista x86 like XP x86 will show a little over 3GB on
System Properties. This is normal. The "missing" ram is not really missing. It is used by the system and not presented to the user. There is
a range of addresses at the upper end of 4GB that is reserved. In a system with less than 4GB these are logical addresses and are handled by the system
that way. However, when the system has 4GB it must block out physical ram to protect the reserved addresses. In addition, the BIOS will reserve some
additional address space for use by devices detected by the BIOS.
Well, they are just forcing peoples hands, if they pull that crap lol. (as in not letting peopel upgrade to 64bit, form 32bit of the same OS)
I don't know if their position has changed on this but you could get 64 bit if you forfeit your 32 bit OS. that said, download the 64 bit off of a torrent and run a dual boot, dual hard drive system. your serial and activation will work on it, since it's the same hardware.