Heys guys!

I am buying new components for my computer re-build and I am wondering if it is even worth while to buy 4gb of ram with XP as my OS. I just don't know if XP will even recognize the 4gb and only see 2gb. So if any of you have any insight in the matter please let me know !

Thx,

Ben

Unless you're running on a 64bit version of XP [with a 64bit CPU], it's highly likely that XP will not see all of your RAM.

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Ok,

Well that sux! LOL, oh well I'm running XP home sp2 32-bit. Then 2 gigs it is, I just really wanted to be able to hold out until the AMD fusion is released before I went with a 64 bit system. Now I don't know if I want to totally rebuild the whole thing. Ash let me know what you suggest. I mean don't get me wrong 2gigs is good, but with the newer games and other apps coming out it seems like more me is the way to go.

2GB is a good ammount of memory but it can be overkill if you dont have a processor that can use it to its full potential
If you could , please give me your processor model.

It's a Athlon 4200+ (natively 2.2 GHz OC'ed to ~2.8).
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So I've decided this:

I'm going with 2Gbs of ram and 2 nVidia 8800 GTS's in SLi configuration. That I think should do it for my system .

As wells as the previously mentioned proc (it's unfortunately the highest I can go with my current mobo Asus 939).

yeah you will be about the best you can get with that dated mobo

Win Xp can recognize 4GB RAM but I think 2GB is enough to do anything.

I was under the impression that it only recognizes 3.5gigs at least thats what a friend that is an engineer for Intel said. (32bit xp 3.5 gig 64bit 8gig+)

that is true , the person who said it will reconize more is wrong