system requirements

[LordjOX]

8 gig of ram - nice

If it's a bit sluggish for me when it's installed I'll bump myself up to 4 gig, only cost £30 to get another 2 identical 6400 sticks now.

Yeah RAM is extremely cheap now.

 

[Vasconcelos]

Yeah RAM is extremely cheap now.

As long as you are a Vista user. WinXP SP2 cant handle more than 3GB memory.
WinXP SP3 might have fixed that, dunno for sure.

 

[LordjOX]

As long as you are a Vista user. WinXP SP2 cant handle more than 3GB memory.
WinXP SP3 might have fixed that, dunno for sure.

It can handle more than 3GB just perfectly. The only thing to check is whether you have a 32bit or 64bit OS. On Vista I have 4GB of memory installed. But since it is 32bit, that is it only supports 4 294 967 295 unique memory adresses I only see about 3.2GB. That is because the memory of my graphics card is included as memory addresses by the OS.
Abit much tech babble. But it should definitely work.

But yeah, you won't be able to USE the extra 1GB ish of RAM since the OS won't be able to detect it (it sees the video card RAM too)

 

[Aoami]

just orderd my new components!

dual core amd 6400+
4gigs of ram
ATI 3650 512mb
22" widescreen monitor
Motherboard
and decent fan/heatsink

£300

yeasaaah xDD

 

[chipper]

300 quid for all that?????? show monitor and where ya got it from or is it a bundle?

 

[fettoken]

I think the extra 1 gig of ram is used within the system somehow, but you only see like 3 gigs.

 

[LordjOX]

I think the extra 1 gig of ram is used within the system somehow, but you only see like 3 gigs.

Yeah, as I wrote in my above post the OS uses the higher memory addresses to address the video card. (if you have alot of video card memory for example).

 

[Aoami]

300 quid for all that?????? show monitor and where ya got it from or is it a bundle?

I get it all VAT free

The monitor is cheap piece of crap!

It's from Ebuyer, one of the 'exta value' ones, but it'll do the job till i can afford a decent one.