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Originally Posted by bronco67
So, translate that link please. I'm not a rocket scientist, I'm just a guy that has built MANY pC's, and I have never been able to get Windows to use more than 3GB of RAM. After much research, I've never seen anyone say that you can ACTUALLY use 4GB, and I don't think those pages you linked say it also.
people should just move on to 64 and not complain about how much RAM they have or don't have. Sky (or your motherboard) is the limit with 64.
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To sum it up (its 04:47 at night here, and im going to bed)
winXP sp2+ can handle 4gb of ram (as most other updated 32 bit version OS)
The reason many people run in to problems using that amount of ram, is because they let the pagefile grow above 2gb, wich is the limit for a 32bit system for files to be handeled at once. You can have larger files, but they arent being loaded/read all at once.
This will result in a system-lock
The way Windows use the 4gb is devide it up (in 4 x 1 gb blocks to roughly simply it)
the first 2gb is set for userprocesses (and pagefile should be limited to 2gb)
another 2gb is set for kernel,cache,boot ect
This is the rough simplified version i would tell a customer..
It's not 100% accurate, but it descripes the way its handeled fairly well