Need advise for new computer

What part of my story changed? You're nit picking the meaning of the word "see" when it was very clear that I meant it cannot access that memory. Look I don't wanna get into a pissing contest with you but just FYI, I think your understanding of user mode incorrect. There's user mode (the space in which normal applications run) and there's kernel mode (the space in which the operating system and most device drivers run). On a 4GB system, this space is divided as 2 and 2. It's possible to reconfigure the OS to re-divide it a 3/2 but this only benefits very specific scenarios that are designed to run in such a configuration.

http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/markrussinovich/WindowsLiveWriter/PushingtheLimitsofWindowsPhysicalMemory_878B/image_38.png

There's a pretty picture that may explain it better.

Here's the technical article if you care to read about the nerdy wonders of memory architecture.

http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2008/07/21/3092070.aspx

Blackcomb was supposed to be the server release after Server 2008. I haven't heard it called Blackcomb in a few years (by anyone in the know).

Vienna is indeed Windows 7. It is no longer known as Vienna (internally, at Microsoft). Microsoft calls it Windows 7. If you wish to call it Vienna, that's cool, it's the same thing. But for simplicity's sake, we should all stick to the current name. It's like calling Vista "Longhorn" because it sounds cooler. Then you get all the folks who don't know what Longhorn is (or assume you're taking about Server 2008, as that was known as Longhorn up until last year).

Vista x86 is just as capable at using multiple processor cores as Vista x64. People report improved performance with the 64 bit version, and some benchmarks show improvements in certain apps, but with most apps the difference will be negligable.

No, it's not like having a 4.9GHz CPU. It's like having two 2.2GHz processors.

Multi-core processors don't add their cores together to become twice as fast, or 4x as fast. Rather, when you have two processor cores, you can execute two threads simultaneously, or four threads simultaneously if you have a quad core proc (and so on). AMD talked for a while of processor instructions that would enable a single thread to be split among multiple cores, thus speeding it up, but nothing has come of that so far.

Any tools adding your cores together for the speed rating shouldn't be trusted.

It'd read the same way as a Core 2...just as a Phenom. If you've got 2x 2GHz cores, then it'll read that way.

wonder why they call it windows 7

its like windows main version 17 or 18, subversion 30 something

its not coming out in 2007, nor 2017

nt version like 9 or 10

and only like the 3rd or 4th consumer version on the nt core

must be a marketing thing

Presumably because it's going to be version 7 of the NT kernel.

It could also be Windows 3.1, Win 95, Win 98, Win ME, Win XP, Win Vista and Win 7. But Microsoft started out with 3.1.........LOL. Bill Gates is weird.

actually there is a windows version 1, and version 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0
http://members.fortunecity.com/pcmuseum/windows.htm

That blows my theory out the window then...........it would be Windows 9. LOL

As Janick said, it is the seventh major version of the NT kernel.

Windows 1.x, 2.x, and 3.x are not operating systems, and Windows 9x (95, 98, ME) use a different kernel, which is why the version number is so low (in comparison to where one would think it should be).

it's a major gaming spec-testing site. it's as accurate as they come.

What site is it?

aye ive been wondering (not really abunch) about that all day