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Jose Black
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.03.05 11:23:00 -
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Qin Shi Huang wrote:[..]
4 GB RAM (diagnostics tell me I only have 3.5 GB though ?!?)
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The theoretical maximum for a 32bit OS is 4GB. In practice the computer uses 256 Mega up to a Gigabyte for IO address space depending on mainboard and its BIOS. The actual installed RAM above the remaining amount is not used, not even for caching because it can not be addressed by the OS.
I'm running the game on a custom built machine (read: replacing one or the other part as soon as it bothers me) as follows:
AMD Phenom II X4 940 (3GHz)
8GB DDR2 RAM (4x 2GB, Kingston)
AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB graphics
750W power supply
23 inch CRT, full HD resolution
It's able to run 2 clients with pretty high settings, but I don't use antialiasing. Enabling it with 2 clients turns it into a slideshow and I bet it's way lacking graphics RAM then. The power supply leaves room for expansions, which are not planned ^^ .
When Incarna hit 4GB apparently weren't enough to run 2 clients and a couple of other programs at the same time.
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Jose Black
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.03.05 18:55:00 -
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Pyrus Octavius wrote:Or he has a core i3 which uses a built in Intel Graphics GPU. This takes up available RAM, and can be customized in the BIOS of your motherboard. I could be wrong, since I didn't see the OP for this person. But this came instantly to my mind. It was Post #44. Would be nice if it'd include the number in quotes now that I think of it :) . It's neither an i3 nor onboard graphics in this case.
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Jose Black
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.03.07 16:00:00 -
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Tanya Powers wrote:Mem: actual standard turns around 1600GHz frequency DDR3 with large dissipaters like Hyper-x tech, if you're using regular vista or 7 32b it's useless to buy more than 6Gb since the program it self cant 'use' more (it can but in short it's useless, specially for gaming
8 to 32Gb if you're using 64b pro versions of win, pinguin <3 Where did you pull that 6GB number from? As mentioned multiple times in this thread a 32Bit OS can use maximum of less than 4 GB RAM. Then again a 32bit program (which EVE is) can only use up to 2GB even running on a 64bit OS
Why 8 to 32GB only for Pro-versions of Windows? My Win7 64bit Home Edition does fine with 8
Tanya Powers wrote:Those are only basics, not how to or what to. If you want the perfect machine to keep for 4/5 years with minimum invest changes every 2 year you need to hit top stuff witch is regularly around 6 to 8 thousand $ / Gé¼ I strongly disagree here. You don't buy the fastest machine available to be safe for the next years. You do buy one that meets your demand
Planning for more than 2 years ahead in terms of computers is something that big corporations should do, but not home users
Tanya Powers wrote:hem, my crap stuff turns around 3.4Ghz (Over Clocked of course), 12Gb 1600 DDR3 but has a single GC waiting next series to come out (after this summer) and I'll put in this babe 2 hot last tech GC's. 2 HD's, 1x vista 32 and 1x win7 ultimate 64b Why would you want Vista _and_ Win7 on the same machine? I'd call it ok to have XP and 7 for some rare software compatibility issues that one may have, but not Vista and 7 because a) Vista is rather crappy and b) probably would have the same issue as Win7 compatibility-wise.
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