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Allanon

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Once every two years (or so), I'll do a machine refresh and post for thoughts and comments. Since I left CX Technologies a few years ago which focused on infrastructure and hardware, I have not had as much hands on that I once did. While I keep up on stuff, I am definitely not up to my eyeballs in tech anymore. So feel free to comment and make suggestions. I choose once again to customize instead of purchase a bundle (from Dell or otherwise) as I attempted to get what I wanted from Dell with mixed results. I think for my purposes, I am much more interested in focusing on core components and back filling the rest.

1 x ANTEC - Sonata III Quiet Super Mini Tower w/ EarthWatts 500W, eSATA
1 x Intel - Core™ i7 Processor 940 2.93GHz w/ 8MB Cache
1 x eVGA - nForce X58 SLI w/ TripleDDR3 1333, 7.1 Audio, Dual Gigabit Lan, 1394, PCI-E, 3-way SLI
1 x OCZ - 6GB PC3-12800 Gold Edition Low Voltage Triple Channel DDR3 Kit (3 x 2GB)
1 x SEAGATE - 1.5TB Barracuda 7200.11 SATA II w/ 32MB Cache
1 x LG - Super Multi Security DVD Writer 22x, SATA w/ Lightscribe, Black (OEM)
1 x BFG - GeForce GTX 285 OC 1GB w/ Dual DVI, HDTV-Out
 
  • 1 x OCZ - 6GB PC3-12800 Gold Edition Low Voltage Triple Channel DDR3 Kit (3 x 2GB)

Wow, 6GB. Can I assume you will be running Vista 64-bit?
 
Actually Windows 7 public beta 64 bit and I'm up and running as of late last night. They had all the parts and I couldn't wait ;) For those of you who might not know, 32 bit workstation/desktop OSes can only address up to 4 GB of physical memory (without some funky stuff) but 64 bit OSes can address up to 16.8 million terabytes.
 
Definitely getting 16.8 million TB of RAM in my next box.
EDIT: Errrrr wait, "physical memory", that would be non-voltaic storage, not RAM, correct?
 
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RAM - it means that each address in memory can have 32 numbers. Since each number could be a 1 or a 0, that means that 2^32 (four billion) addresses are available. The computer could theoretically address up to 4 gigabytes of memory; however, many computers with 32-bit addressing have far less than 4 gigabytes of memory.

What complicates the whole 32-bit thingy is that applications under Windows can only address up to 2GB of memory each as Microsoft reserves the other 2GB for their "stuff".
 
A question for you technophiles since this seems to be a good thread for it...
I have anHP 15.4" Pavilion dv6809wm Laptop PC w/ AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TL-60

The processor is one that, as I understand it, can handle the 64 bit OS. That said, 1) is there any point in upgrading to 64 bit? I dunno that I can put that much more memory into the machine.
2) Would more memory help the video since it is a shared memory video chip?
3) If so, how do I go about upgrading to 64 bit?
 
Nope, no point in going 64 bit OS if you don't have or can't have more than 4GB of RAM. It won't do anything for you on the shared video memory side.
 
UNLESS your process size is larger than 2 GB then you need to go 64 bit no matter what your ram amount is..:)
 
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