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I've been debating with several of my friends from another tech department about windows and memory usage. From researching on google and testing on one of my home 32bit game servers that "had" 4 gigs of ram I've found that in most instances you wont find it advantageous to run more than 3gigs of ram due to how the majority of apps/games are written in 32bit. Their claim is that you can address more than 2gigs of ram which is true but I've seen very few apps outside of terminal servers and exchange that can take advantage of 3gigs of memory.
Now this is were I think I may be wrong and could really use some clarification. If you have three gigs of ram,two gigs will be accessible to whatever app(s) your running say photoshop or supreme commander and any background processes.The other 1 gig of ram will be solely used for kernel space correct?
Now this is were I think I may be wrong and could really use some clarification. If you have three gigs of ram,two gigs will be accessible to whatever app(s) your running say photoshop or supreme commander and any background processes.The other 1 gig of ram will be solely used for kernel space correct?