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@LeGIt wrote:
Also don’t forget your Graphics card RAM counts towards the total 4gb the OS will support… as my friend found out when he splashed out on 2x 768mb 8800GTX’s and 4Gb of DDR2… Windows x86 only saw 1.5gb of VRAM and 2.5Gb of DDR2… After installing x64 Vista/XP he has had no problems since… apart from sucking at every game he plays 😛
How the fuck can Video ram count as system ram?? ❓ Yeah ok if you have onboard vga THAT will steal video ram from your system ram but never in my 9 years of building/repairing computer systems have i ever seen or heard owt like that.
@TurksMeister wrote:
What do you do? Starting at 12… doesnt sound like a real job to me!
I work for Cumbria County Council doing specialist cleaning in School Kitchens, Fire Stations and Police Cells for 25 hours a week…..so i suppose your right, its not a proper job! 😉
jesus I work all feckin week to pay for your feckin pension and you don’t even start till 12. this country is a bloody joke.. 😀
@=XDC=McQueen wrote:
How the fuck can Video ram count as system ram?? ❓ Yeah ok if you have onboard vga THAT will steal video ram from your system ram but never in my 9 years of building/repairing computer systems have i ever seen or heard owt like that.
That’s because out of all your years of system building no one has ever had 4gb of ram and 1.5gb of vram in their machines because it’s only recently been the case where the limits of 32-bit have been pushed and memory has been affordable and available enough to reach those limits. I’ve also been building systems just as long and it’s new too me too, but I’ve seen it with my own eyes and it can, does and will happen – try it yourself as IIRC you have a shop so parts should be readily available to confirm this? Also video ram is not stealing from the main ram – it’s just windows xp x32 can only use 4gb so it’s using 1.5gb of the vram and 2.5gb of the main ram = 4gb… the other 1.5gb of system ram was just ignored 🙁 When he went 64 bit when I let him use a copy from a Microsoft Action pack it sees it all though…
@11thSignal wrote:
jesus I work all feckin week to pay for your feckin pension and you don’t even start till 12. this country is a bloody joke.. 😀
I know its good isn’t it! 😉 😆
I used to work for the RAC as a Patrolman for 22 years up until 2 years ago. The job paid well, but they had to be pension me off because the job knackered my back!( claim in process 😉 )
@XDC-snell wrote:
Were about’s in cumbria ?
Whitehaven…which is a fairly small harbour town in West Cumbria.
Do you know Cumbria Snell?
Im not a Northerner though….im a born Cockney(though you cant tell from my accent!), moved up here 18 months ago and bl**dy love it. 😀
Me dad live’s in Ulverston and I,m other side of the Pennines in tyneside.
Oh yes been to whitehaven and all the little death traps and got out alive.@LeGIt wrote:
That’s because out of all your years of system building no one has ever had 4gb of ram and 1.5gb of vram in their machines because it’s only recently been the case where the limits of 32-bit have been pushed and memory has been affordable and available enough to reach those limits. I’ve also been building systems just as long and it’s new too me too, but I’ve seen it with my own eyes and it can, does and will happen – try it yourself as IIRC you have a shop so parts should be readily available to confirm this? Also video ram is not stealing from the main ram – it’s just windows xp x32 can only use 4gb so it’s using 1.5gb of the vram and 2.5gb of the main ram = 4gb… the other 1.5gb of system ram was just ignored 🙁 When he went 64 bit when I let him use a copy from a Microsoft Action pack it sees it all though…
You are mistaken I think. VRAM & RAM are completely separate. VRAM does not appear in the address space of the CPU, and RAM is not in the address space of the GPU. Data gets transferred between RAM & DRAM via the AGP/PCI/PCIX bus. And ne’re the twain shall meet. They are physically different types of memory too in most cases.
I don’t know what your friend saw, but I am pretty sure that the Gb memory limit is system RAM only, and absolutely not the sum of DRAM & VRAM. There must be some other explanation.
It’s been a few years since I wrote graphics card drivers for Windows, and maybe things have changed. But I would be surprised if they had changed this much.
@XDC-snell wrote:
Me dad live’s in Ulverston and I,m other side of the Pennines in tyneside.
Oh yes been to whitehaven and all the little death traps and got out alive.lol…death traps?
I havent been to Ulverston yet, but i,ve been down to Barrow for work…..hate going down that far coz the roads sooooo slow(think we need a dirty great big Dual carrigeway across the fells 😉 )
@dodge wrote:
Just out or curiousity did the 2gig work. 🙂
I think so…..my pc does boot up quicker and programs do open/run a tad faster…..but i think i,ve got soooo much shite on my pc that it hasnt improved it as much as i was expecting! 🙄
@TurksMeister wrote:
We rent a 400 year old farmhouse near Cartmel (Off Monkees old man 🙂 )… absolutely beautiful.
Cool…..my aim in life up here is too eventually buy an old farm house with a little bit of land. 🙂
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