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Aloone_Jonez:

--- Quote from: Lead Head ---But windows eats 1GB of it up, and you only have 3GB of ram you can use
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1GB? Not even Vista uses that much, you must have some shitware running in the background.

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---1GB? Not even Vista uses that much
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You made that point already and he answered:

--- Quote ---I mean you only have 3GB useable, Like windows just makes that extra gig of ram vanish.
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Lead Head:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---1GB? Not even Vista uses that much, you must have some shitware running in the background.
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unless you have Physical Address Extension installed, Windows will only see 3GB of the 4

worker201:
Reminds me - my brother-in-law works for Dell, and they just came out with a computer that has 64GB RAM.  64GB!!!!!!!!!!!!  Apparently, oil companies are buying them like mad, in order to run their modeling programs.

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: worker201 ---Reminds me - my brother-in-law works for Dell, and they just came out with a computer that has 64GB RAM.  64GB!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Kinda kicks home the fact that Vista is just around the corner :D

Did some googling and found the page for the beast: http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/precn_690?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz

--- Quote ---To utilize more than 4GB of memory requires a 64-bit OS. To expand memory to more than 32GB requires a Dell Precision 690 1KW system with memory risers.
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64GB, insane... The 2TB of storage isn't increadible, but the RAM...

http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=555&l=en&oc=MLB1726&s=biz
16GB RAM costs over $10,000 for 4 dimms, whoa.

I don't wanna give away any hints, but this would look well in my bedroom - and it's my birthday tomorrow ;)

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