Hello Psn,

are any of you able to verify the following:

On the new 64 bit machines you need 8GB of ram to get only 1Gb of 64 bit word space ?

You also need a motherboard with a capacity of greater than what you want to use.
Like if you want to have full use of 8GB your motherboard will have to handle
like 12GB or 16Gb or some of your ram like up to 1GB is lost to hardware mapping.

You also need a 64 OS like vista 64 or later.

Like 8GB plus 1GB video would be 9GB total ???

Like 8GB RAM plus 1GB video Plus whatever is for hardware is quite a bit more than 8GB ??

Does any of this make sense ?

So if you want a full 8GB of ram you need to buy a 16GB motherboard ??

Also, DDR3 is the latest greatest RAM ?

I had problems recently relating to enough ram and thats what provoked this investigation.

It seems to me if you look at prices a full blown machine today is
about the same as a full blown machine of yesterday but several times faster ?

Regards,
geoff
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