How much RAM do you have?

[naturemon]

Wrong.

99% of all installations of Windows XP are 32-bit. The other 1% is 64-bit XP which, is quite broken as far as I know. Useless information...?

Yes, there are 32-bit versions for Vista and 7 too and 64-bit versions. And again

The difference is the amount of RAM they recognize. 32-bit or x86 versions of Operating Systems can only recognize up to 3.5 GB of RAM. 64-bit or x64 versions can recognize somewhere to millions of gigabytes of RAM I think but I'm definitely not correct.

I'm wrong...but..your wrong..? What?

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[tails]

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I suggest you read this so you know what you're talking about.

[General Nick]

Useless information...?

And again

but I'm definitely not correct.

At the red: You stated that Windows XP could recognize a large amount of memory.
I missed the "Not sure if this is accurate" part of your post and thought you were stating a fact.

At the second red: You stated Windows XP as if there was only one version, x86. I clarified that there was a x64 for XP and I didn't want to confuse anyone else so I mentioned Vista/7, in case they would go "oh but can windows 7/vista do this?"

At the bold: Well I could've been wrong.

I suggest you read this so you know what you're talking about.

I was talking about physical RAM, not actual processing of x86/x64 and differences.
I just wanted to bring out the most clear difference between x86/x64 to most people who aren't exactly tech savvy. I don't think most of them would really read up or care about the differences between processing between x86/x64.

[tails]

Uhh you sorta was.

Aaanyway i think 64bit supports like 17 terabytes of ram or something.

[Righteous One]

It also depends on the version of the RAM; there's DDR2 and DDR3, 3 obviously being the newer one. DDR3 has twice the bandwidth of DDR2, and I have 4GB of it, so technically one could say that I have 8GB of DDR2.

Jesus christ. You are stupid.

[Marcem]

1gb of DDR 2.  I need to upgrade.

[General Nick]

Uhh you sorta was.

Aaanyway i think 64bit supports like 17 terabytes of ram or something.

So 17,000 GB of RAM.

...I was pretty far off on that last one.

It also depends on the version of the RAM; there's DDR2 and DDR3, 3 obviously being the newer one. DDR3 has twice the bandwidth of DDR2, and I have 4GB of it, so technically one could say that I have 8GB of DDR2.

Jesus christ. You are stupid.

I'd agree.
You don't magically have 8GB of DDR2 because you have 4GB of DDR3.
I'd say even if somehow a DDR3 chip is equivalent to multiple DDR2 chips then maybe your 4GB of DDR3 would be like equivalent to 4.5GB of DDR2.
DDR3 to DDR2 isn't that big of a performance I'd say, but feel free anyone to correct me.

[naturemon]

At the second red: You stated Windows XP as if there was only one version, x86. I clarified that there was a x64 for XP and I didn't want to confuse anyone else so I mentioned Vista/7, in case they would go "oh but can windows 7/vista do this?"

At the bold: Well I could've been wrong.
I was talking about physical RAM, not actual processing of x86/x64 and differences.
I just wanted to bring out the most clear difference between x86/x64 to most people who aren't exactly tech savvy. I don't think most of them would really read up or care about the differences between processing between x86/x64.

Alright then.