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BrianG · 11.20.2009, 01:02 AM

First of all, why would you need more than 2GB of RAM on XP?? My commit charge (RAM being used) at any one time has never been above 700MB, and that's with a lot of stuff open at once. If you are looking to eliminate the page file, it won't help. No matter how much RAM you have, paging will be used to some degree.

Anyway, from experience, the more sticks of RAM you have, the more sensitive the whole system becomes with regard to settings. Even if they were all the same, you might have to raise the latency for stability. This is with DDR RAM, so I'm not sure if this applies to DDR2 if that's what you have.

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BrianG RC-Monster Admin Offline Posts: 14,609 Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Des Moines, IA	11.20.2009, 01:02 AM First of all, why would you need more than 2GB of RAM on XP?? My commit charge (RAM being used) at any one time has never been above 700MB, and that's with a lot of stuff open at once. If you are looking to eliminate the page file, it won't help. No matter how much RAM you have, paging will be used to some degree. Anyway, from experience, the more sticks of RAM you have, the more sensitive the whole system becomes with regard to settings. Even if they were all the same, you might have to raise the latency for stability. This is with DDR RAM, so I'm not sure if this applies to DDR2 if that's what you have.