More than 4Gb a waste?

[ZenbaaS]

I have 4GBs of Mushkin 1600MHz DDR3, cant remember the specific models...

A little off topic here - Has anyone else experienced issues with DDR3 at 1600 on AM3 Motherboards? I have to run mine at 1066 otherwise its unstable. I looked around and it seems liek a fairly common problem that AMD has to address.

And a question, in regards to Win32 only seeing 3GB, does that include graphics memory?

I Think it does. 3gb for ALL memory.

 

[Blackhand]

6GB is the sweet spot.

Its enough to keep your system running smoothly while alt+tabbing between many applications and hardware intense games. You should never run into that dreaded slowdown where you need to reboot.

You likely won't notice an FPS increase in games, since most don't use that much memory, but you will notice that your system overall runs much more smoothly. It should never need to be rebooted to get performance back after running for extended periods of time, hell, my gaming rig runs for weeks on end.

 

[Gradius]

I have 4GBs of Mushkin 1600MHz DDR3, cant remember the specific models...

A little off topic here - Has anyone else experienced issues with DDR3 at 1600 on AM3 Motherboards? I have to run mine at 1066 otherwise its unstable. I looked around and it seems liek a fairly common problem that AMD has to address.

And a question, in regards to Win32 only seeing 3GB, does that include graphics memory?

Nope, I haven't had any issues as of yet TBH What mobo u using?
System memory n Graphics Card memory are counted toward each other. Windows has to assign address space to address your video memory