Re: Use 3GB or 4GB RAM in 32 bit OS?

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips Arno Wagner <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>> IF your MB sup****ts 4 gigs, you CAN have that much,
> >>> but Windows 32 bit won't use all 4 gigs, only about 3 gigs.
> >> 
> >> It is not that bad. You get around 3.7GB of 4GB with 32 bit 
> >> Windows XP (or Linux, or any other 32 bit OS). The missing
> >> space is 1MB for the legacy space and 256MB for the 
> >> PCI graphics I/O window, and so you loose about 25% of the
> >> last GB.
> > 
> > XP sees 3.12GB out of my 4GB on my system.
>
> Hmm. There seem to be differences.

It varies by motherboard and in some cases, by what video card you've got.

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