Can you have too much RAM?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by jerseydevil, Mar 18, 2006.

  1. jerseydevil

    jerseydevil Private First Class

    I read that once you go over 1024 gbs of RAM XP will begin to slow down?????
     
    jerseydevil, Mar 18, 2006
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  2. juggalo29935

    juggalo29935 Private E-2

    I have heard that xp only allows 3.5 Gigs max so anything over would be waste but im not positive. As for slowing a comp down with too much ram I dont see it happening.
     
    juggalo29935, Mar 18, 2006
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  3. comperroruter

    comperroruter Darth Meatloaf

    At some point you are just throwing away money. I have 1024 and I rarely use more than half of that, even with online gaming.
     
    comperroruter, Mar 18, 2006
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  4. stardis

    stardis Private E-2

    I can't tell any difference in how XP runs with 1 gb to 2 gb of ram. The difference I noticed was that some applications seem to run faster and the hard drive seems to work less.

    One computer is an AMD64 3000 with 1 gb of ram and another AMD64 3200 with 2 gb of ram and XP seems to run the same on both machines. They would probably benchmark differently but not in a way that I would notice.
     
    stardis, Mar 18, 2006
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