Originally posted by Bardock42
Well, you wouldn't have a problem with having more than 4 gigs while using XP. You just couldn't utilize it.Do you use very memory heavy applications? I don't know what you could use though to justify 56GB in a consumer computer really.
It doesn't have 56 Gigabytes of RAM. It's probably a misinterpretation of something. That might be the space on his slave drive. Based on his discussion of getting a trojan in the RAM, and having to limit the size of RAM to mitigate RAM trojans. That's just...odd, and doesn't really make sense. So, it makes more sense that he's just confused on the memory type.
Now, if he were using a modded version of Server 2003 DE, he could get 56GB of RAM as that supports up to 64GB of RAM (uses PAE to address physical memory in a 32-bit architecture). However, that would require a server motherboard with 16 DIMM slots (with each DIMM being 4GB, duh.) In his computer's case (no pun intended), he'd only need to fill 14 of those 16 slots. 16 DIMM slot motherboards have been around since the late 2005s (I think...might have been sooner, but that's like the first I remember reading aobut them.)
So, most likely, he's misreading something.
A quick way to find out is right click "my computer" and left-click "properties". Then, take a screen shot of the general tab and the "computer" info should tell all.
BTW, you can do this much faster by pressing the window button on your keyboard (the one with the Microsoft Windows symbol on it...usually at the very bottom of hte keyboard by "alt"😉, and while pressing the window button, press "pause/break". That will open the system properties. Then, hit alt and print screen at the same time, to print the active window to the clipboard, then, past that into a paint file, save it, upload it to KMC or upload that file to photobucket, and paste the link to that image on photobucker, here.
Originally posted by dadudemon
It doesn't have 56 Gigabytes of RAM. It's probably a misinterpretation of something. That might be the space on his slave drive. Based on his discussion of getting a trojan in the RAM, and having to limit the size of RAM to mitigate RAM trojans. That's just...odd, and doesn't really make sense. So, it makes more sense that he's just confused on the memory type.Now, if he were using a modded version of Server 2003 DE, he could get 56GB of RAM as that supports up to 64GB of RAM (uses PAE to address physical memory in a 32-bit architecture). However, that would require a server motherboard with 16 DIMM slots (with each DIMM being 4GB, duh.) In his computer's case (no pun intended), he'd only need to fill 14 of those 16 slots. 16 DIMM slot motherboards have been around since the late 2005s (I think...might have been sooner, but that's like the first I remember reading aobut them.)
So, most likely, he's misreading something.
A quick way to find out is right click "my computer" and left-click "properties". Then, take a screen shot of the general tab and the "computer" info should tell all.
BTW, you can do this much faster by pressing the window button on your keyboard (the one with the Microsoft Windows symbol on it...usually at the very bottom of hte keyboard by "alt"😉, and while pressing the window button, press "pause/break". That will open the system properties. Then, hit alt and print screen at the same time, to print the active window to the clipboard, then, past that into a paint file, save it, upload it to KMC or upload that file to photobucket, and paste the link to that image on photobucker, here.
That was somewhat my point. He'd have to have a server. The number 56 is also somewhat odd for RAM though obviously not impossible.
Originally posted by Bardock42
That was somewhat my point. He'd have to have a server. The number 56 is also somewhat odd for RAM though obviously not impossible.
Nothing odd about that, actually. It's just simply 14 DIMM slots filled up with 4GB memory modules.
What is odd is having 56 GB of RAM in the desktop PC of an average PC user. That's just hilarious. Reminds me of these pictures:
Originally posted by dadudemon
Nothing odd about that, actually. It's just simply 14 DIMM slots filled up with 4GB memory modules.What is odd is having 56 GB of RAM in the desktop PC of an average PC user. That's just hilarious. Reminds me of these pictures:
I guess it's supposedly not good to leave slots open though, but yeah I guess you are right.