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Re: Use up to 64GB of RAM on 32 bit Windows 8

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Post by sigkill » Fri, Jul 19, 2013, 10:06 AM UTC

rbanffy wrote: post #37

sigkill wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm actually in the market for a old dumb box and for power(i.e. energy/electricity) reasons I'm shying away from the PressHot - Pentiums. I'm targeting a Core 2 Duo which seem like a great balance between power and performance and I'm reasonably sure that the money I'd save by going this route would not be recovered over the course of 5 years if I get a more recent box.

You may go with one of the desktop Atoms. They can, IIRC, handle up to 4 GB of RAM and consume less power than a Core 2 Duo.

That might work. I'm looking for a pure file backup server that can receive the occasional fax and use PHP's sendmail function.

Re: Use up to 64GB of RAM on 32 bit Windows 8

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Post by workbench » Fri, Jul 19, 2013, 10:17 AM UTC

That OS is such a complete joke

Re: Use up to 64GB of RAM on 32 bit Windows 8

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Post by workbench » Fri, Jul 19, 2013, 10:17 AM UTC

venomsnake wrote: post #39

nikita2206 wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why on earth would you install Windows on a workstation machine when you can use Linux (and there's no limitations such as the need to run IIS, etc)?

A wild guess could be that the work needed to be done on that station was windows only or they did not had *nix people on board or that they wanted to see if this was enough ram for Crysis ...

Well it wasn't windows only was it because they just installed Linux in the end

Re: Use up to 64GB of RAM on 32 bit Windows 8

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Post by dave1010uk » Fri, Jul 19, 2013, 5:39 PM UTC

nikita2206 wrote: post #38

dave1010uk wrote: post #34

We made the mistake of installing Windows 7 Premium 64-bit on a workstation with 24GB of RAM but Windows only said 16GB was available! I can see why MS restrict their products like this so they can artificially price them. But in the end we ditched Windows and just installed Linux.

Why on earth would you install Windows on a workstation machine when you can use Linux (and there's no limitations such as the need to run IIS, etc)?

The developer had lots of Windows desktop experience but little Linux desktop experience. We run a mix of Windows, Mac and Linux here, so using Windows shouldn't have been a problem.