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Originally posted by Verte
No way, especially with Vista. If you're using Vista on a 32 bit machine especially- with 4GB you can almost stop it thrashing and caching it's brains out 
Well, that said, I don't know what you will be using it for so there's a chance you will use less. Still, it's nice to have all your ram in physical ram rather than on your disk!
yes way...
If you're using a 32bit system, it is absolutely useless to add more than 3GB (well 3,5 something actually) performance wise. The added memory will not add anything in performance, speed, memory usage, etc. It will simply be wasted and not being used. Even if you have 2 processes using each 2GB of memory, Windows will still need to use a pagefile (even in Vista!).
There are hundreds of benchmarks to back this up too
And all this for normal PC usage (thus not talking about server editions of Windows, etc.
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