[ryanfx]

Originally Posted by r0nin89

Arguable thing whether 32bit supports 3 or 4 gigs of ram. I've always had 4gigs in my 32 bit systems and it recognized and used all of it. It is true that windows its self cant make use of more than 3gigs but that doesnt mean that a heavy program wont use the 4th gig while windows utilizes the other 3.

Yes squirrel thats a 32 bit OS.

Take a look at OCZ ram on newegg. Theyre an up and coming company that I tried out on my desktop build with ddr3 and I think they make some good stuff. I have 8 gigs of DDR3 1333 clocked down to 1000 with jumped timing, copper tube heatsinks. Very cool looking stuff I never use.

Theyre very reasonably priced too. Just make sure you get ram thats all matched timing and speed.

This isn't true at all. 32 bit systems have 32 bits of addressable memory space. That memory space first gets allocated by the Windows kernel to hardware registers and cache such as graphics cards / hard drives, then the remaining chunk becomes addressable to your RAM. It's limited by the OS, not by your application. If your application requires more than 4GB the OS will virtualize further storage into your system swap or page file.

EDIT: There's also nothing arguable about it, 32 bit systems support 4GB of RAM