ID Tracker III

[centralcoastscanman]

so bascially if your motherboard cannot handle more than 4gb memory and/or you don't do really high powered mathemtical calculations upgrading to a 64bit operating is a waste of money.

[citabria]

Come on Andrew! 64 bit - its the way of the future!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_WWUfYAQE8

[Chrisco]

okay i am getting this msg Display driver “nvlddmkm stopped responding, but has successfully recovered.” after coming back from a black screen this happens every 5-10 mins I have tried to update software, rollback driver my computer man now thinks it is hardware problem but my reading heaps of others on fourms who had the same problem I still think is software.

[citabria]

Try Install up to date NVIDIA drivers

[criten]

so bascially if your motherboard cannot handle more than 4gb memory and/or you don't do really high powered mathemtical calculations upgrading to a 64bit operating is a waste of money.

Nothing to do with the mainboard - its all to do with the architecture/bits. If you want more than 3GB memory, you need 64bit.

You don't need to be a mathematician to have your computer use 64bit integers - practically all computers in all home and desktop applications will require 64bit integers. Win7 is optimized for 64bit - and by this they mean the default integer length is 64bits.

[citabria]

Everything will benefit from 64-bit. It will remove a large amount of kludgery that goes on in 32-bit systems that inevitable wastes CPU cycles regardless of what you're doing.

[citabria]

If you want more than 3GB memory, you need 64bit.

Without being picky, 32-bit address registers support 4GB of address space..

[Chrisco]

Try Install up to date NVIDIA drivers

yeah tried that

[centralcoastscanman]

so bascially if your motherboard cannot handle more than 4gb memory and/or you don't do really high powered mathemtical calculations upgrading to a 64bit operating is a waste of money.

Nothing to do with the mainboard - its all to do with the architecture/bits. If you want more than 3GB memory, you need 64bit.

You don't need to be a mathematician to have your computer use 64bit integers - practically all computers in all home and desktop applications will require 64bit integers. Win7 is optimized for 64bit - and by this they mean the default integer length is 64bits.

criten,

i have 4gb in my machine i'm working on now, windows xp picks it up as 3.2gb and the bios picks it up something around the same

[citabria]

OK we're way off topic here but...

Yep - the higher 800MB are reserved for DMA addresses. This RAM is essentially wasted unless you use the /PAE switch which brings other compromises. Go 64 bit and you get your 800 megs back!

Anyways.. lets get back to ID tracker