Re: How much ram in Vista

Tim Slattery

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08-14-2009

mike0856 <> wrote:

>
>I have a dell inspiron with a quad core and vista 32 bit on it. I have 3
>gig of pc 6400 ram on it. Is it worth going to 4 gig. i know vista has
>some sort of issues above 3 gig

You won't be able to actually use more than about 3.2 to 3.5GB. See
http://members.cox.net/slatteryt/RAM.html for a discussion of the
reasons.

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Tim Slattery
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