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monkeyphonix

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Re: The 8gb question


	ethelredalready wrote: A generalised word of warning here. I'm not a gamer or over-clocker, I simply "slam in the RAM". I've recently bought a few "matched sets" of Corsair RAM and all have failed, as opposed to umpteen similar from Crucial which have all worked flawlessly often for many years. I don't know if this is just a "me" issue, but a 100% failure rate is pretty poor IMHO. My advice is now solidly "Buy Crucial" for your simple needs.

I've had two lots of Crucial ram fail on me, VERY expensive Ballistix (at the time) and some of their value stuff. Crucial being just a marketing name of Micron, sell ram to Corsair. Corsair don't make their own memory chips, they use Qimonda, Samsung,. Hynix (nee Hyundai) and Micron. Some of the Crucial and Corsair product lines are exactly the same. So it Corsair has a high fail rate, Crucial can too and vice versa.

Fri May 22, 2009 7:02 pm

Cerberus

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Re: The 8gb question

How do I go about turning superfetch off?

I've had a google, but just want to make sure I do it the correct way.

Sun May 24, 2009 6:34 pm

curiousclive

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Re: The 8gb question

go to 'services' scroll down till find 'superfetch' right click choose properties and select disable.

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Re: The 8gb question


	curiousclive wrote: Hi monkeyphonix Although unable to post my snippit of taskbar the taskbar says 'Total memory = 8189mb' o is seeing all 8Gb. Seems only system Information is reporting lower Total memory. Checked with my brother who also had Vista Ultimate 64bit and his also only says 4GB total memory in system information. He has now install windows 7RC, now his system information read Total memory and installed memory as 8Gb. Seems this is a bug in vista Ultimate which would only be resolved via a Microsoft patch. Won't hold my breath though

There is a patch on the microsoft site for this, system information reports only 4GB but the taskbar and device manager report correctly, it's been there for quite a while now so no need to hold your breath :-)

Microsoft KB950233

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