prasanna7287
Broken In
I upgraded my system to,
AMD Phenom II X4 940 BE @ 3.0 GHz,
Gigabyte MA78GM-S2HP motherboard,
and 4 Gb DDR2 RAM.
I have a XFX 8600 GT graphics card. After the upgrade, i installed "Windows XP 32-Bit SP-3" on my machine. It shows only 3 Gb of RAM.
I google for this and i found a lot of pages.. some saying:
"XP will recognize only 3 Gb of RAM but will utilise all 4 Gb"
some say that: "XP will use only 3 Gb of RAM and the remaining 1 Gb will NOT be used at all"
I tried installing "Vista Home Premium SP-1", it shows 4 Gb RAM. But i really dont want to install Vista on my PC.
Can anyone tell me which opinion of the above two is right and if XP cannot use all my 4Gb, what other OS can i install so that i can play the latest games and use softwares?
Thanks,
Prasanna.
AMD Phenom II X4 940 BE @ 3.0 GHz,
Gigabyte MA78GM-S2HP motherboard,
and 4 Gb DDR2 RAM.
I have a XFX 8600 GT graphics card. After the upgrade, i installed "Windows XP 32-Bit SP-3" on my machine. It shows only 3 Gb of RAM.
I google for this and i found a lot of pages.. some saying:
"XP will recognize only 3 Gb of RAM but will utilise all 4 Gb"
some say that: "XP will use only 3 Gb of RAM and the remaining 1 Gb will NOT be used at all"
I tried installing "Vista Home Premium SP-1", it shows 4 Gb RAM. But i really dont want to install Vista on my PC.
Can anyone tell me which opinion of the above two is right and if XP cannot use all my 4Gb, what other OS can i install so that i can play the latest games and use softwares?
Thanks,
Prasanna.