@Piru
I've never heard of that before, and I've worked on a lot of systems. Is this something that is only needed for DDR3 setups?
Honestly, I don't know enough about electronics to say, but it predates DDR3 by quite a bit. I had an old Via Apollo 133 board that wasn't stable with four PC133 DIMMs installed unless the voltage was ramped up. It may have had something to do with the way power was chained to the slots. Obviously, you'd want to stay within the tolerances documented for the memory and the board itself.
@redrumloa
Try Crysis. It's a system killer, regardless. I'm enjoying Fallout 3 quite a bit. It's similar enough to Oblivion that getting into the gameplay was quite easy (assuming you've played Oblivion). Apart from Pipboy and other obvious visual cues, though, it's quite different in tone from the first two games. It's neither desolate nor desperate enough, despite the post-apocolyptic environment.
Speaking of Oblivion (Elder Scrolls 4), buy it, too. You won't be disappointed. Morrowind (Elder Scrolls 3) is still quite playable as well. For the casual gamer, both provide months of gameplay.
And finally, don't forget Half-Life 2 and its continuations. It's a few years old, but it's still awesome.
@all
Mark Russinovich has a good write-up here <
http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2008/07/21/3092070.aspx> on how Windows uses physical memory on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. Note that the parts specific to 32-bit systems are somewhat operating system agnostic (yes, even 32-bit Linux has limitations), as all x86 operating systems rely on the same technologies to access memory.
Trev
