Quad core 2.4GHz or Dual core 3.0GHz

[Steve Forde]

The missing RAM IS the PCI-Blackhole. You should be able to view how much RAM the BIOS is reserving. This creates the effect of Win XP 32 not seeing the blackhole (as the motherboard takes it away from the OS to reserve for itself).

Therefore – if you have 4GB installed….

1. The BIOS will show that 4GB is installed – and that 1GB is reserved for the PCI bus.
2. Windows will only show that 3GB is installed – as that 1GB is taken away from it by the BIOS before Windows even boots up.

All in all – WinXP will only show the amount of RAM that the BIOS has given it.

Hope this makes sense

Also – I have been to studios and production houses all over the planet – and have seen XP64 and Vista 64 running AE7 and CS3 quite nicely. It takes some tweaking every now and again – but if you need the horsepower – unfortunately its your only route when dealing with RAM limitations.

I will say that dealing with drivers, Quicktime etc on a Win 64 system is more complicated, and may only be palatable to folks with more advanced knowledge of dealing with the OS.

Steve
GridIron Software Inc.