Originally Posted by Thorsson 
It's no name stuff, but if it doesn't work you could return it.
Micron are one of the biggest chip makers in the world (think Crucial and most server based mission critial systems use it).
Originally Posted by Harkin You will need Vista 64 bit to use the 4Gb, 32 bit only uses up to 3Gb
Wrong im afraid. 2^32 = 4Gb / 4 gibibytes if you want to be exact
It depends on the hardware being used, and what is being assigned to the registers.
Originally Posted by staffsMike 32bit only utilises 3gb of ram
Wrong again im afraid. See above.
Originally Posted by brentonhill Regardless of this is it no better to run 4x1024 sticks as apposed too 3x1024 sticks?
Do you need the extra RAM?
Also, if running XP, its not very good at sorting out 4Gb of RAM (It can, dont get me wrong, just not very good at it
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Originally Posted by Harkin Why? The other 1Gb still won't be used
It depends on the application, PAE, version of windows / the opperating system you are running.
You can use 4Gb fine with the right setup. I dont know why people think you cant? It just takes a little more work / research.
Its use under windows is debatable, granted. Unless you are doing a lot of multitasking / multithreaded work with the correct application, it will offer little / no advantage.
Originally Posted by Dreaming
Someone said windows can be clever and use up to 128gigs even on 32 bit but haven't seen it so far.
64gigs on x86 with PAE
The amount of misinformation in this thread is shocking
Bad advice is worse than no advice!