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Old 22-03-2008, 17:31   #8 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by CaptainStack View Post
I selected the 4gb RAM myself- would 3gb not provide a noticeable improvement over 2gb when running a few programs at the same time?
By default, no. It won't make any difference whatsoever. However, you can tell Windows to make up to 3GB of your RAM available to programs, but this isn't completely straightforward. This is how you can do it though (it's an edit to a system file):

Memory Support and Windows Operating Systems
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