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Originally Posted by frau kaleun
When I had XP 32 bit I already had 6 GB of RAM physically installed, but in My Computer>Properties it showed only 3.25 GB.
I'm not sure what the dealio is with that. I remember reading somewhere about Windows "setting aside" a certain amount of RAM for specific purposes depending on (IIRC) what kind of hardware one had installed, so I always figured the other .75 gigs that it should have recognized was being recognized but devoted to something in particular and thus not available for anything else.  |
what is 2 to the 32 power? A number (in computer world) of 4GB. Windows itself uses ~1GB therefore the max a 32bit Windows OS application can use is 3GB (physical ram). Anything over 4GB physical ram in a 32 bit OS isn't used (can't be addressed).
a 32bit OS can only address 4GB of physical RAM.