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[filmscanners] Re: Digital Darkroom Computer Builders?



Laurie writes:

> ... unless one is looking for 1GB or larger RAM
> chips which tend to be special order items at
> premium prices.

Such chips are available?  I thought 512 MB was the largest one could buy at
the moment.

> Maybe your motherboard has a limitation in memory
> slots and a memory capacity of 512 ...

It has three slots, but I don't think it has any other limitation beyond
that.  With 512 MB devices, I can go up to 1.5 GB, and I have.

> My system also uses Windows XP Home Edition,
> which is not crippled to prevent it from addressing
> more than 512MB or 1024 MB as you suggest since
> I am currently running at 1024MB and have been
> told that I could add two more 512 MB modules
> under my current setup.

The total RAM limit is 2 GB on the Home Edition.  It is 4 GB on the Pro
edition.  It's just a switch inside the software, of course, so Microsoft
doesn't advertise the difference, but when you can't get past 2 GB on the
Home Edition and try to call for support, they'll tell you to spend a couple
of hundred dollars on an upgrade that has the limiting switch turned off.

> I believe the limnitation is not a Windows
> one but a motherboard chipset one.

Motherboards may be separately limited, but the 2 GB limitation is
definitely an artificial OS limitation.

> I am not sure I understand you.

A 32-bit address space can only span 4 gigabytes.  I can't go past 4
gigabytes with a 32-bit architecture.

> But a motherboard with an onboard EIDE RAID
> controller is only around $60-$80 more than
> the same board without one.

Perhaps where you live, but everything is more expensive in France.  And
even at U.S. prices I didn't have enough of a budget for extras.

> It has been my experience that I do not have
> to align the monitor up as exactly to be able
> to see and read it as is the case with a
> lighter LCD monitor ...

Alignment isn't a problem for me, since my head barely moves in front of my
desk.  But I just cannot find a flat-panel display with the same quality as
a good CRT for the same price--or for any price, for that matter.

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