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Originally Posted by Taf
3GB max RAM for this motherboard.  |
Yeah I missed you're running 32bit O/S (your CPU is 64bit), so only need half of what I recommended (I'm running 64-bit on 7). Also the recommended for Vista Premium is a lot lower at 1GB. So 3GB should be fine.
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Originally Posted by Taf
Virtual memory has always been turned off to STOP any disk thrashing.
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Hmm.. dubious.
http://lifehacker.com/5426041/unders...dnt-disable-it
I turned off indexing, backups and Superfetch on Windows 7 (Superfetch was fine for a while and then went crazy).
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Originally Posted by Taf
I often run 2 browsers, DVD authoring software, file conversion programs and a graphics program at the same time at high speed.
The only programs I had speed problems with were Chrome (memory hog) and sometimes Firefox (something to do with a plugin, possibly Flash).
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Yeah, Flash is a constant memory leak, so glad that Youtube and others have moved to HTML5 video. HTML5 takes more CPU though.
Javascript is still a constant memory leak, due to architecture. Not much you can do there except avoid badly scripted sites.
At the end of the day it's whatever works for you.
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Originally Posted by pip08456
A 32 bit windows OS will not recognise nor use any memory above 3GB.
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You can tell I haven't thought about 32bit for years now.
