The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Ram

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Jayson S, Oct 26, 2008.

  1. Jayson S

    Jayson S Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    31
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Am I one of the lucky people to actually have 3.5Gb RAM utilised in a 32-bit Operating System? Usually people get like 3Gb or something it seems.

    More on topic to gaming, is this going to give me more FPS? :D I doubt it, but ah well... My laptop is a Dell m1530 by the way. It uses DDR2 I think.

    [​IMG]
     
    Jayson S, Oct 26, 2008
    #1
  2. chipmoney

    chipmoney Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    140
    Messages:
    635
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    It won't give you a boost unless a game actually uses enough RAM so that you would run out at 3 GB
     
    chipmoney, Oct 26, 2008
    #2
  3. Jayson S

    Jayson S Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    31
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Thought so... Also, is this rare to get 3.5Gb on a 32-bit system?
     
    Jayson S, Oct 26, 2008
    #3
  4. chipmoney

    chipmoney Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    140
    Messages:
    635
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    I think thats what it reads out of 4 GB, though I'm not 100% sure on that.
     
    chipmoney, Oct 26, 2008
    #4
  5. redrazor11

    redrazor11 Formerly waterwizard11

    Reputations:
    771
    Messages:
    1,309
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    not that rare. The reason why some people only have 3, is because their videocard has more memory, and that can be adressing the OS limit of 4gb.
     
    redrazor11, Oct 26, 2008
    #5
  6. nizzy1115

    nizzy1115 Notebook Prophet

    Reputations:
    2,557
    Messages:
    6,682
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    205
    the usual is 3.2-3.6 so you are in the norm.
     
    nizzy1115, Oct 26, 2008
    #6
  7. masterchef341

    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

    Reputations:
    3,047
    Messages:
    8,636
    Likes Received:
    4
    Trophy Points:
    206
    sure. high end of the normal but still within a standard deviation.

    64 bit over here ;) no memory issues for me.
     
    masterchef341, Oct 26, 2008
    #7