My computer is a quad core with 4gb of ram and thats enough, I can play and do nearly anything on it. 12gb of ram for worms armegedon which takes like 256mb ram is to much!
I will say a 12 gig RAM in Xp machine for home use a real waste....wOTEVER home based application or game you run they will never require 12 gig...
12 gigs of ram? don't think that xp could handle this. As I remember it's limited to 3 gigs. how do you do that?
Or you could do it for fun. When I first built my PC, I was told 2Gb was overkill and unnecessary, so I bought 8GB and I've never used even close to a quarter of it. And I just ordered another system which will also have 8GB. All I really use my PC for now is MSN and Word and occasionally do set excercises for Flight Sim. I've had a server with 32GB of RAM and I used it for a test site which was password proteced and accessed just by me. People always overdo it, it just happens. Of course, then there's the situations that actually require it, such as here - DP runs on 120GB RAM with 40 CPU cores and still fails now and then...
Thats great , but don't forget , its depend on your motherbeard model its make more diff for the best function with your apps Good luck ..
The technology of 64bit allow you used more 24 GB of ram with no problem as you said the 32bit is not more 3 GB of RAM can be used Good luck
Well as requested I have now uploaded an image of the speed results on one of my systems. Windows 7 RC 1 Solid State Drive 60gb 12GB ram 1GB Radeon 4800 vid card two 1.5 tb drives mirrorred for storage..
Well as requested I have now uploaded an image of the speed results on one of my systems. Windows 7 RC 1 Solid State Drive 60gb 12GB ram 1GB Radeon 4800 vid card two 1.5 tb drives mirrorred for storage.. Couldn't post the images here so I posted it on another forum: http://theeducationforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=182&sid=0f2378226f1d2e3e3b79225995c01cd6
it depeneds on motherboard model I think, XP has some limitation I think it is 4 GB or something like that in max memory.
I use the system for games mainly. Right now playing Worms Armegaddon. And Command and Conquer.. It's fun for me and my newphews/nieces.. they love it! I admit.. So do i! It has office and excel on there too so the government would think it's a businesss machine