technical Advice regarding Computer Hardware (RAM)
- From: ofahed <x@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:10:07 -0500 (CDT)
Dear All,
I hope to find supportive information regarding, using 4 gig of RAM on a 32Bit
Windows(XP Pro) system. I think the IT of my company is really trying to
challenge or just insulting my intelligence with their responses.
To state my problem:
Our testing units have to almost run realtime and bring the right performance
with loading Call by reference Nodes at a decent speed. Since the system is
running pretty preformance hungry processes like Microsoft Sql Server Express
2005 which takes around 570MB of RAM and LabVIEW uses with the loaded test
almost 160MB of RAM, plus the virus scanner the IT(very critical while running
a test!). Sad to say the specs on the computer are P(R)4 3Ghz with 1Gig RAM.
Well I've requested then at the IT an upgrade to 4 gig per unit, to improve the
performance for the SQL and LabVIEW to reduce the overhead calling the
Reference. It was fully clear on my side that XP will not complete will be able
to use the full resources of 4 gig, approximatley 3.2 to 3.5 gig allocatable by
the OS, since the BIOS, Graphic Cards and so on will take up some of the RAM.
But come on! RAM doesn't cost that much anymore these days!
The response IT returned was:"XP just supports 2 gig",
:smileyvery-happy:, to be honest I almost cried for laughing after I've heard
this one. So I've send them the link from Microsoft
http://technet.microsoft.com/de-de/library/bb457053(en-us).aspx
Which says :
The major differentiator between 32-bit and 64-bit Windows is in memory
support. Currently, 32-bit Windows is capable of supporting up to 4 GB of
system memory, with up to 2 GB of dedicated memory per process. Windows XP
64-Bit Edition will currently support up to 16 GB of RAM, with the potential to
support up to 16 TB of virtual memory as hardware capabilities and memory sizes
grow.
The responds to this from the IT in the evening was:
"Mircosoft advices for business use a maximum of 3gig of Ram"
?!
Has anybody heard from such a statement from Microsoft?
Since I've always received very valuable information in this forum, I hope to
get supportive informations or links for upgrading to 4 gig or tell me if I am
just wrong and possible reason for not upgrading to 4 gig. Eventually I want to
switch to linux so all RAM can be allocated.
Thank you in advance,
Oliver
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