hi fellows i have gateway 5478 desktop quad-core @2.4 each 2gb 500gb 8500gt nividia card home preimum -vista 32 bit next my question is i wanna upgrade the memory 6gb(which is able to upgradeable uot 8gb) but what i heard with 32 bit it recignises uot 3gb is this true!!! if yes- whats the advice if no please advise
Yes, that is true. A 32bit OS will recognize up to 4GB, but the OS/system will use about 1GB automatically, and that's why you are stuck with 3GB. If you upgrade to a 64bit OS, then your PC can see up to 16 or 32GB of ram (I think it's something high around there). Why do you want to upgrade to 6GB of ram though? Are you playing games or rendering things? 6GB wont help in playing games, the 2GB you have now is enough. The graphics card on that machine sucks though. But if you aren't playing games you wont have to worry about that.
i just wanna upgrade it to 3 or 4 gb with installing 64 bit(i heard 64 bit is in still buggy ) now iam not the gaming person (i never fond of gaming though) just wanna upgrade which card is good to my cpu ....any advice will be great help the onw i have vgs/s-video/dvi just to hook up to lcd do u think upgrade to 3 or 4 gb will be a bit faster
