RAM is insanely cheap

2007-12-13 19:09:11

#1

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|7185|67.222.138.85

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6820145590

I'm trying to tell myself that going from 2gb of RAM to 4gb of RAM on XP isn't worth $40. Can anyone help me?

2007-12-13 19:11:09

#2

Catbox: forgiveness; +505|7194

It wont really help with games... It would help with video rendering and 3d rendering though... and for 37 bucks... thats crazy

Love is the answer

2007-12-13 19:12:14

#3

Pop To Ster: Philosiraptor; +45|7010|Edmonds, WA

I suppose it is true. Better buy before it goes out of stock, or it discontinues the rebate.
Geez...'05 RAM that my comp was using cost 100+ bucks for 512 MB

2007-12-13 19:16:11

#4

elite.mafia: Banned; +122|6931|USA

XP 32 bit won't even support 4 gigs of ram... And 64 bit windows xp is horrible.

2007-12-13 19:17:22

#5

[TUF]Whiskey_Oktober: mmmm...Toasty!; +91|7200|Oregon

your bf2 will load way faster if nothin else.

2007-12-13 19:22:19

#6

Little BaBy JESUS: m8; +394|6626|'straya

just to be a pain in the ass... XP can take 3.8 GB of RAM

2007-12-13 19:23:14

#7

san4: The Mas; +311|7166|NYC, a place to live

elite.mafia wrote:
XP 32 bit won't even support 4 gigs of ram... And 64 bit windows xp is horrible.

Is that true? Sux.

Edit: Nuts, beaten by "moments".

Last edited by san4 (2007-12-13 19:23:48)

2007-12-13 19:24:15

#8

Little BaBy JESUS: m8; +394|6626|'straya

san4 wrote:
elite.mafia wrote:
XP 32 bit won't even support 4 gigs of ram... And 64 bit windows xp is horrible.
Is that true? Sux.

yes its true... XP supports a maximum of 3.8 Gb of RAM ^^^

2007-12-13 19:24:34

#9

ReDevilJR: Member; +106|6829

I raise you to $36.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6820220144

2007-12-13 19:24:59

#10

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|7185|67.222.138.85

XP doesn't support the full 4gb, but it does most of it as stated, and if I ever move the the RAM whore that is Vista...

2007-12-13 19:27:45

#11

Little BaBy JESUS: m8; +394|6626|'straya

yer ive never tried but i think u could have as much RAM as ur comp could hold and XP would only recognise 3.8... so i guess theres nothing stopping u getting 4
.i say buy it
u have inspired me to add to my 2 GB of RAM lol

Last edited by Little BaBy JESUS (2007-12-13 19:28:00)

2007-12-13 19:27:54

#12

Unreal_Insanity: Member; +9|6642

Little BaBy JESUS wrote:
san4 wrote:
elite.mafia wrote:
XP 32 bit won't even support 4 gigs of ram... And 64 bit windows xp is horrible.
Is that true? Sux.
yes its true... XP supports a maximum of 3.8 Gb of RAM ^^^

Actually 2.7 gigs or depends on the bandwidth of the memory. For example PC 3200 can get up tp 3.8 and PC 6400 can get up tp 2.7. So it depends on what you have.

2007-12-13 19:35:01

#13

Little BaBy JESUS: m8; +394|6626|'straya

now im not sure... but is it true that u can have as much RAM as u want and XP will just recognise the 3.8 it supports... it doesnt matter if u have more?? im just about to order another 2 Gb. help plz

2007-12-13 19:39:39

#14

Dauntless: Admin; +2,249|7220|London

Do I see different prices to you guys?

Flaming_Maniac wrote:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145590

For that one I see $67.00

ReDevilJR wrote:
I raise you to $36.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6820220144

and that one shows up as $76.99

Still cheap though.

Last edited by Dauntless (2007-12-13 19:40:06)

2007-12-13 19:44:17

#15

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|7185|67.222.138.85

Dauntless wrote:
Do I see different prices to you guys?

Flaming_Maniac wrote:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145590
For that one I see $67.00

ReDevilJR wrote:
I raise you to $36.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6820220144
and that one shows up as $76.99

Still cheap though.

Check the rebate.

Unreal, this is PC6400, so XP only supports 2.7?

Edit: Some of these links are interesting...

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/XPMyths.html

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archi … 99521.aspx

2007-12-13 19:48:29

#16

Little BaBy JESUS: m8; +394|6626|'straya

the RAM im looking at doesnt say whether is 3200 or 6400....

EDIT: never mind i found out lol (premature post)

Last edited by Little BaBy JESUS (2007-12-13 19:49:18)

2007-12-13 19:55:15

#17

HSG: Member; +23|6952|British Columbia, Canada

Xp 64-bit supports 4+ gigs of ram

2007-12-13 19:55:55

#18

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|7185|67.222.138.85

HSG wrote:
Xp 64-bit supports 4+ gigs of ram

I don't really want to switch to 64 bit though...does anyone have experience switching the PAE switch?

2007-12-13 20:00:10

#19

Ryan: Member; +1,230|7321|Alberta, Canada

I should buy myself another gig or 2. Cheap prices

2007-12-13 21:44:30

#20

Unreal_Insanity: Member; +9|6642

Flaming_Maniac wrote:
Dauntless wrote:
Do I see different prices to you guys?

Flaming_Maniac wrote:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145590
For that one I see $67.00

ReDevilJR wrote:
I raise you to $36.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6820220144
and that one shows up as $76.99

Still cheap though.
Check the rebate.

Unreal, this is PC6400, so XP only supports 2.7?

Edit: Some of these links are interesting...

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/XPMyths.html

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archi … 99521.aspx

yeah dude. You can have all 4 in there but the 32 bit will only accept 2.7. I have the 64 bit version and like everyone else says it sucks. You can go ahead and buy it and wait for Vistas service packs to be released, cause youll need all 4 with vista ultimate when playing games.

Thats my advice. I have 4 right now and just waiting for vista to get fixed mean while I stick with XP pro.

2007-12-14 00:04:37

#21

Scorpion0x17: can detect anyone's visible post count...; +691|7244|Cambridge (UK)

<*SIGH*>

Not this hot potato again.

OKAY, I'm only going to say this once.

32bit XP DOES support 4GB of physical RAM - whether it's PC3200, PC6400 or whatever.

However, in all systems, some memory addresses are 'mapped' to IO (meaning they're used to communicate with any peripherals, video card, sound card, and do on).

So, because the 32-bit address space is exactly 4GB, if you install 4GB of physical ram, the IO mapped addresses will hide some of the physical addresses.

How many addresses are hidden in this way varies from system to system, so there is no single maximum amount of ram that will be available to windows.

In fact, if one were to build a system that didn't use memory-mapped IO, windows would see all 4GB - but that's only in theory - all modern PCs use memory-mapped IO.

Now to answer the OP, yes you'll see some improvement going from 2GB to 4GB physical RAM, but not as much as you get from going from 1GB to 2GB, unless you do a lot of graphics/video/audio editing, or other tasks that require large amounts of RAM.

2007-12-14 00:05:42

#22

blademaster: I'm moving to Brazil; +2,075|7123

I use a same brand XMS corsair on my PC except not 6400

2007-12-14 02:42:40

#23

CrazeD: Member; +368|7151|Maine

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6820146565

This is better...

2007-12-14 02:48:03

#24

Gawwad: My way or Haddaway!; +212|7163|Espoo, Finland

Go for it FM! All the cool kids have 4GB today. You wouldn't want to be left out, now would you?

Little BaBy JESUS wrote:

yer ive never tried but i think u could have as much RAM as ur comp could hold and XP would only recognise 3.8... so i guess theres nothing stopping u getting 4
.i say buy it
u have inspired me to add to my 2 GB of RAM lol

No-one is going to read your posts with that color.

2007-12-14 02:57:56

#25

hawaythelads: We are PREMIER LEAGUE!; +84|6964|Newcastle Upon Tyne.

elite.mafia wrote:
XP 32 bit won't even support 4 gigs of ram... And 64 bit windows xp is horrible.

Whats so good/bad about 64Bit? I recently Recived an upgrade from home and was wondering if it gives enough of an advantage for the bother of formating and reinstalling everything on my computer?

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