BJ Killed My Computer

  • Thread starter Thread starter LeftyWright69
  • 37 comments
  • 3,469 views
32-bit systems can't cope with more than 4GB of RAM, and I believe it'll only show 3GB of stick RAM because you've got 1GB of RAM on your GFX card.
 
It's because 32-bit OS'es were designed only to have up to 3GB of RAM show up. If you install a 64-bit OS such as linux you will see that all of the 4GB will show up. If you want the extra RAM and get a little extra performance you can install a new 64-bit Windows OS. You can get away with running 32-bit for only so long.

@Sureboss, the graphics card has it's own memory on the card to make use of. So that 1GB would not just magically appear on the graphics card.
 
Yeah they can use 4GB of memory, but the system is using the rest of the address space for something else.
 
As I am gearing up for Battle Field 3 I intend on suiting up Win 7 and the SAPPHIRE 100283-3L Radeon HD 5770 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card. As I continue my inexperience will show, I didn’t know that the 64 bit came from the OS, I thought it was the MOBO that gave you that ……lol I also don’t want to lose my 32bit platform so I was thinking maybe there is a SATA A/B hardware switch that I can use to switch primary drives, one for BF3 and one for my curent configuration, it that possible or do I have to do it with software.
 
Last edited:
You can switch OS in the bios. I have XP on one drive and Win 7 on a different drive. You just move the HDD that has the OS you want to use to the top spot. My son dual boots his system the same way. He has older games that were installed using XP that he still plays like WOW and Steam games and he plays BFBC2 on win 7.

I also play BFBC2 on win 7 and COD WAW on XP. Its not hard to do this.
 
nick09
It's because 32-bit OS'es were designed only to have up to 3GB of RAM show up. If you install a 64-bit OS such as linux you will see that all of the 4GB will show up. If you want the extra RAM and get a little extra performance you can install a new 64-bit Windows OS. You can get away with running 32-bit for only so long.

@Sureboss, the graphics card has it's own memory on the card to make use of. So that 1GB would not just magically appear on the graphics card.
Click to expand...

That's not what I meant.
 
Oh, did you mean that it's possible that the graphics card could of taken the 1GB as shared memory?
 
@ first post


AAHH!! Kill it!! It's so damned ugly!!! EEEWWW!!

Seriously that computer is like the Ford Taurus '94 of computers...
 

Latest Posts

Back