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From: divisor on 16 Mar 2010 05:46
Hello David:

I stand corrected...it looks like it is 2GB..

I never tried XP x64...I run Win7...this page says 2GB for Win7 x64

http://capitalhead.com/articles/windows-7-requirements-for-64-bit-(x64)-and-32-bit-(x86)-personal-computers.aspx

Roger Williams
Franklin Laboratory
http://www.youtube.com/congruentlight

On Mar 15, 5:04 am, David Bailey <d...(a)removedbailey.co.uk> wrote:
> divisor wrote:
> > Hello becko:
>
> > 1) you can only install 64-bit Windoze if you have 4GB (or more).
> > 2) I recently started running this OS with 6GB. All of my older
> > examples which used a lot of memory (for graphics or imported data)
> > run much faster now.
> > 3) the best improvement is that File-Saves which occasionaly were
> > interminable (sic?) are now completed in a reasonable (if not short)
> > period of time.
>
> > I will probably go to 8GB soon.
>
> > Roger Williams
> > Franklin Laboratory
> >http://www.youtube.com/CongruentLight
>
> > On Mar 12, 5:12 am, becko BECKO <becko...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but I can't think of any better. Would I gain some performance with Mathematica if I installed 64bit windows 7? I have a quad-processor, but only 2 gb ram, so I am not sure. Thanks.
>
> This statement is certainly not true of Windows XP-64. I have run it on
> 1GB or RAM quite successfully. Indeed, that is Microsoft's stated
> minimum requirement:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306856
>
> Have you confused RAM requirements with hard disk usage perhaps?
>
> David Baileyhttp://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk- Hide quoted text -
>
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