re: How much RAM to add?
Monday, November 2, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by MikeB
(28 messages posted)
Crucial.com and a number of other reference sources state that 4 Gb is the maximum
for XP. I do not know if this is accurate or not but, when booting up my computer,
the BIOS clearly registers that there is 2.5Gb of memory. The computer System Properties
also show 2.5Gb of RAM. Could the 2Gb limit you suggest be for a single-core processor
rather than a dual-core system?
On Monday, November 2, 2009 at 10:51 am, MartinM wrote:
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>Whatever My Computer shows, the virtual address space of processes and applications
>is limited in XP to 2 GB, unless the /3GB switch is used in the boot.ini file.
>
>Depending on how applications are written, the /3GB switch can make a marginal difference
>to performance, although this is all rather academic and I don't mean to make more
>of these limits than they deserve !
>
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