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    Thanks for answering a question from 2005, with an answer from 2004, in 2009.

    Weird.

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    Interesting though? last I heard MS were touting 3.12Gb not 4.0. Reminds me of their 9x/ME days when you were supposed to be able to use 2Gb of physical memory...........but God help you if you installed more than 512Mb

    And nobody mentioned that your video card is included? In 2009 a 1Gb vid card is not unusual?

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    Quote Originally Posted by nihil View Post
    Interesting though? last I heard MS were touting 3.12Gb not 4.0. Reminds me of their 9x/ME days when you were supposed to be able to use 2Gb of physical memory...........but God help you if you installed more than 512Mb

    And nobody mentioned that your video card is included? In 2009 a 1Gb vid card is not unusual?
    You are confusing usable with supported. Windows 32-bit et. al. supports up to 4GB of RAM. However the user will only be privy to roughly 3.0-3.25GB of that, due to OS overhead and memory mapping.

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