Badass Budget Gaming Build

[Shadowex3]

Well just before anyone else says it: Smokey Yunick did exactly that.

[duhoh]

Windows 7 32 bit.... with 4 gigs of ram... what? I thought 32 maxed out at 2 odd gigs

 

32-bit does 3.3 GB of memory, which counts both RAM and VRAM, so if there is 4GB of ram and 1GB of VRAM, it'll come out to about 2.3 GB of usable memory.

 

but yes, i totally agree. Why get 32-bit with 4GB?

 

Your both wrong and potshot thinks resellerratings is a scam site so that shows how much he knows too.

 

32bit runs out of physical addresses around 4gb, programs can be made to recognize more than the 4th gig of ram if they're Large Address Aware. The reason you see 3.2-3.5gb of ram is because every bit of ram used by your videocard is mirrored by your system ram. So if your videocard has 2gb of onboard ram you'll lose 2gb of ram from your system. That's why videocards with more than 1gb of ram are so rare.

 

 

 

while true, the 3.3ish GB is a OS limitation.

 

32-bit windows server have taken 16GB of usable ram.

[Shadowex3]

They'll take 200gb of ram if you can fit it, that won't change whether or not they run out of physical addresses for the ram. They're probably using some kind of tricks to get it to work because the physical address limit of 32bit systems is not an OS limit and has been around since before windows even existed.

[trakaill]

I just got to say!!! If you are not gonna buy better than a corsair PSU..dont buy anything else than corsair..it breaks

[Shadowex3]

^^ Yeah. If your going to get a generic PSU you're basically wasting the money you spend on the computer. If you want to do that so badly just send it to me and I'll make better use of it.