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Originally Posted by WEBSTER
recheck your setup because i also have 4gb ram but xp home sees 3.5 gb on my system and it can handle and does make use of all 3.5gb of it.
if your system is only showing 3gb of 4gb ram then your ram or your system has a problem.
i dont know for sure about that last .5gb but people who sound smart and are supposed to know what they are talking about have told me xp still uses the other .5gb but its just not showing as being recognised.
according to them, while its true that xp can only handle 4gb max, it will only display that it sees 3.5gb of that 4gb so many people mistakenly believe thats all it can use.
none of this is all that important anyway because people will use the operating system they have. i never heard of anyone going buy a new operating system because some game needed it in order to work.
the only time you have to have a vista/win7 OS is if you want to run over 4gb ram and the full use of quad cores is silly because NOBODY will ever use the full ability of dual cores so the notion you need access to all 4 cores output is silly. but just because we dont need or use all the power from a v8 doesnt mean we dont still have to have one when we go buy a new truck.
when it comes to dual core vs quad core cpus: (to use the v8 vs v4 example)
well games barely use half of a dual cores ability now (if that even) so that dual core is like the v4 and is more than any game will ever use so my quad core is like a v8 when games can be run on half the power of a 4 cylinder so my quad will never be touched by the game and its never going to get used fully any time soon or in the next 5 years. quads are great for multitasking and running software apps but for gaming they arent any super duper improvement over dual cores.
i bought a quad myself because it was cheap and fast but the "gaming" aspect isnt why i bought it.
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Do you have a 512mb video card? if so thats why.
I had the same with my 9800GT now i have a gtx 275 (890mb)
xp shows mr RAM as 3.2GB
As for weather a 32bit OS only reports 4GB max - or will not use more than that, I have heard mixed interpretations of it, though I have come to belive that it is the latter of the two.