Whats your pc rig specs?

[twistedone]

I thought about hooking up my HDTV to the computer as a monitor. But decided that my 22" Gateway LCD monitor does a great job by itself. Now if I could only change the menu language on the monitor. I'm lousy at reading Chinese.

Tried to do the upgrade Sunday, ran into a little snag. Seems my case is just a tad too thin for the motherboard and the CPU cooler I bought. Had to order another case. My son is right, I can't judge size worth.....uh....Scat!!

Also found out, a little late, that because I'm using a 32bit Operating System, It will only recognize just a tad over 2 Gigs of the 4 Gigs of system memory that I have. In order for it to recognize all 4 gigs, I'd have to install a 64 bit Operating System. I so don't like the idea of getting Windows Vista.

Originally Posted by racquel

I built my computer in January 2006, and it wasn't really the fastest thing back then, but I've had no real reason to upgrade it except for adding hard drives. It's an Athlon X2 2.0 GHz running at 2.5 GHz, and it has 2GB RAM, and I think a GeForce 6600 GT (it was the fastest thing that didn't need a fan back then). I've got 4 hard drives in it and a little over 1 TB.

I guess if I played any games on it I'd want something better, but I really don't.

I did upgrade one thing... I used to have 3 monitors taking up my whole desk, but a few months ago I threw away my desk and got a 46" LCD. So I guess I'm a pretty big geek since I usually watch TV on a 32" TV and have my computer plugged into a 46" TV.

[racquel]

Originally Posted by twistedone

Also found out, a little late, that because I'm using a 32bit Operating System, It will only recognize just a tad over 2 Gigs of the 4 Gigs of system memory that I have. In order for it to recognize all 4 gigs, I'd have to install a 64 bit Operating System. I so don't like the idea of getting Windows Vista.

Well, 32-bit Windows can address 4GB, but it has to give memory addresses to things like your video memory and other hardware devices, so that means Windows can only usually use 3.12GB of the address space for RAM. It's the same reason DOS had a 1024KB address space but a 640KB RAM limit. Do you have two 1GB video cards or something? That's the only time I've heard of people not being able to see at least 3GB.

64-bit Vista (or XP Pro x64 if you can get drivers) doesn't usually help unless you're running 64-bit software, though, and it might slow things down. Since most software is 32-bit it has to run through the WOW64 emulation layer. Each application is still limited to a virtual 32-bit address space, and I think each thread is limited to 2GB.