PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 8:25 pm Post subject:
A 7200rpm drive will help with things like loading Windows and large programs. But they generally run hotter and are noisier.
Would it be a significant difference from a 4200 rpm? Like enough to actually switch out the HDs?
PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 8:25 pm Post subject:
A 7200rpm drive will help with things like loading Windows and large programs. But they generally run hotter and are noisier.
There are some issues with having 4GB of RAM, even with Vista. The main problem is that most programs (and most Vista installations) are 32-bit. Older versions of Windows (32-bit, non-server) with 4GB of RAM installed would either see 2GB or 3GB of RAM, depending on whether certain special 'switches' were set. Even then, applications would only be able to address 2GB of memory.
Moving to 64-bit versions solved the RAM issues but introduced other problems. Certain 32-bit programs would have issues running under 64-bit Windows, 64-bit driver support was (and to some extent still is) spotty, and certain hardware would reserve portions of RAM (address space) and make it unavailable to applications and the OS (unless certain unrecommended hacks were used). I always assume that the version of Vista installed on any new computer is 32-bit.
Unless you have a lot of hardware that uses exclusive memory space, with 4GB RAM installed you should still get a little over 3GB available.
That's what I'm used to hearing, some guy at best buy actually said vista 32 bit would work fine with 4 gigs

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Currently on my desktop I have windows vista 64bit version and haven't had any issues except with half -life 2 episode one. The orignal half life 2 though plays fine

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I have yet to read the links you gave me but you do mention that while using the 32 bit version it would still recognize or use around 3 gigs of ram correct? If so I think I could live with that and still stick to the 32 bit version, though disappointed. If not I would rather buy another copy of the 64 bit version since all the programs I really use, which are the adobe software, work fine with the 64 bit version, or at least have with my desktop

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