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Originally Posted by Ara T.
Windows XP x86, with PAE enabled is still only going to be able to see 4GB of ram anyways. Im not sure about Vista but I believe PAE is enabled by default on Vista yet people still have problems with the OS being able to utilize the extra RAM, as well as having some conflicts with their hardware (video card/sound card, probably driver related) so it is not without its problems.
For most users you don't need over 4GB anyways...I bet most would be bottlenecked by their CPUs before they would by RAM. Heck I do a lot of gaming and 4 is plenty for the resolutions I work with.
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I run win 7 (64-bit), either 4 or 8 virtual desktops, a vnc session, either one or two virtualized (vmware) OS (ie XP and ubuntu), half-a-dozen browsers, and a word document simultaneously,
The total RAM usage is under 6 GB, usually closer to 4 GB.
I've never come close to being RAM 'bottle-necked', though I'm sure some applications will.