Re: HP says 2GB RAM maximum; will 4GB work??

Steve schrieb:

I was just reading an article which said there will be Vista 32 and
Vista 64, and that Vista 64 bit wouldn't be out until 2007.

Strange. MS said that both Vista versions are on track and aimed for Q2/Q3 this year, and reliable sources seem to confirm this. But this wouldn't be the first time MS changes their plans...

Vista 32
may do a better job with the memory space between 2GB up to 4GB but who
knows. I now expect the split between consumer and pro is only going to
widen. Professionals who need more CPU core or more memory, will get a
64 bit OS, on a Xeon or an Opteron, and pay for registered ECC RAM.
They'll need to be very clear about which applications they will be
running.

Exactly. It will certainly take at least another 2-3 years until 64bit is ready for the masses. Until then most users still are way better with 32bit Windows...

What got me started down this road was the Athlon 64, but it seems like
the few white box PCs with an Athlon 64 are aimed at Windows users, and
are only going to offer them 2GB. There must be a few Athlon 64
motherboards that support 4 or 8GB, if you want to build your own
system and run linux on it.

I'm quite sure they all work with more than 2GB (don't forget that with AMD Athlon64/Opteron the memory controller is now in the cpu and not on the board), but marketing dictates that for the target audience 2GB is already highend, so they don't offer more memory....

Yes, the Pavilions are cheap, the idea was
to find performance on the cheap, but it turns out that its hard to do.
I think 2GB and an 4200+ Athlon 64 X2 on an HP d4100e is about the
maximum number crunching you're going to get out of a white box
consumer PC. For certain applications like rendering movies buying two
of these for the price of 1 HP workstation would certainly give the
workstation a run for its money. At least from looking at HP's smart
buys. HP doesn't seem to have any xw workstations in their US RENEWED
program http://www.hp.com/united-states/renew/promotions.html

I assume you're in the US? I don't know how HP handles it there but here in Germany the prices on HPs website are a pure rip-off. You should be able to find HP dealers that can offer you HP RENEW workstations and that at much lower prices than what the HP-Shop asks for such systems (if they are even able to offer them)...

Benjamin
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