New PC home built does this sound fine

savemoney

thanks I did have free del with avforums but I think that ended, I do have a very old Hexus account if I can remember username/password

I have used scan before but postage is always the stumbling block, I like Novatech had good service from them in past and sometimes use Ebuyer

I needed to go for dual boot as I want to have another go at Vista I might head for 64bit route and keep XP as backup for old legacy programs/games

Thanks for help

tomsolomon

banger9365 wrote: »

you have one slight problem with all that your ram and motherboard

your ram is DDR3
your motherboard takes DDR2
hope you have not ordered them
:rolleyes:
this is becoming a common mistack

The system RAM the OS quoted is DDR2 which is compatible. The graphics card has DDR3 and if I remember correctly runs independantly via the PCI bus which should be more than capable of handling the higher speeds. But you would need to check the MOBO documentation for this. Although I may be wrong. My advise would be to do a bit more homework before chucking a load of components into a case, and possibly your money down the drain..........

banger9365

just to put you right m8y GDDR3 is for the GPU (graphics card)us and ram has we all put it is DDR (DDR/DDR2/DDR3)is for the system to us
and it is basicly independ to the system ram unless your using a 32bit operating system and then your system ram and gddr ram shoud not be more than 3.5GB put a 64bit operating system can us it all above 3.5GB
so the op will have 4.5GB which makes up hs 4gb system ram and 512mb gddr ram so he shoud be using a 64 bit operating system
and it do not mater about the gddr ram compatibility

savemoney

You can use XP with 4gb although it only shows 3.5gb the 0.5gb is still used by the OS apparently

banger9365

it will run with 4gb ram,it will show less than 4gb ram,can it us it all no because it needs to reserve part of it memory for other things (gpu's,bios,pci ect)so the max amount of memory xp can us is 4gb ,thats not ram it the total amount of memory it can us including ram gpu's pci and all the other thing you do not think about,
thats why we say us a 64 bit operating system because it can us 128gb of memory where has a 32bit operating system can only us 4gb of memory
memory is not just ram

Ghost

* sorry, dumb question alert *

If you go for a 64bit OS, does all the rest of your software need to be 64bit?

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Ghost wrote: »

* sorry, dumb question alert *

If you go for a 64bit OS, does all the rest of your software need to be 64bit?

No, you can run 32bit software on a 64bit operating system just fine. Drivers will need to be 64bit though.