Doubling the Bits, Tripling the Memory, It's Upgrade Time! »
After my last memory upgrade, things were going along pretty well. The Crucial 2GB Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory was doing well. But naturally, I decided that it was time to play again. I'll get to that story shortly. Actually I have two stories to tell - the first is in upgrading the CPU (3GHz, here I come!) and the second is in replacing that Crucial memory). But that will have to wait.
I knew before I ordered the Crucial memory that I'd be stuck at less than 4GB of memory. It's a problem with any 32-bit operating system - you just can't get over the virtual address space, inherent in any 32-bit OS. Yet I had a monstrous 8GB now loaded in the box. What was I to do? I had to figure out a way to access this memory, and there was no way I was going to install Vista. Luckily, it's spring, which means that I am in the process of cleaning things, and during that never-ending horror, I came across a disk that contained
Microsoft Windows XP Professional 64Bit SP2C
. That's right - not just Windows XP Professional, but the 64-bit edition. Yeah, baby! It's time to have some fun.
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