Dave Smith wrote:
> SCP wrote:
>
>> -->Right. My computer came with 2 gigs of memory. I asked the guy at
>> -->Dell, 'why not bump it up to 4 gigs... memory isn't that expensive'.
>> -->Turns out that anything over 2 gigs can actually slow down the
>> -->computer. It was explained to me at the time, but my personal memory
>> -->banks are so full now, anything new coming in just pushes out some old
>> -->information. ;-)
>>
>>
>>
>> Who told you that the checkout person, because it wasn't a tech. If it
>> was, I'd
>> think twice about giving them any more of your money.
>
> That certainly sounds contrary to my admittedly limited knowledge of how
> computers work. I was under the impression that increased RAM meant
> faster performance because it eliminates the need to access virtual
> memory on the hard disk, which means additional processing and swapping.
xp handles around 3.2 gig of ram per core/chip just the way it was
written and of course win7 doesn't appear to have the limitation
the 3.2 gig limitation is tied to the 640 dos limitation I hear