Vista 64, P5B-Deluxe, 4 GB ram

[TCfromBN]

I've taken the plunge into Vista and am quite content so far. Only one concern:

I've searched far and wide for a real answer to this question but have not yet found anything concrete; So I come here, hoping one of you will know the answer. (I'm looking at you ASUS :angel

So, Vista 64bit supposedly had some problems with reading 4GB of ram during installation, so I avoided that by installing with only 2GB of ram in and then searched for the update to fix the problem. No big deal, no problems with that.

Last night I was concerned that my BIOS and Vista were only seeing 3008MB of ram instead of my 4096MB that were installed. So of course I went and researched a bit and found that enabling Memory Remapping (in the BIOS itself)and Physical Address Extensions (PAE) (through the boot manager in Vista) seemed to fix the issue with both the BIOS and the OS only seeing 3GB. This is true, after enabling remapping and PAE, the BIOS and Vista both recognize 4GB of ram.

My concern is that I thought remapping was only necessary for 32 bit systems, and that there was no need for it in 64 bit systems as the functionality was already there.

Are these remapping / PAE feature(s) slowing my system down?


Specs are below with the exception of my BIOS (Version 1004, which supposedly has enhanced memory support).

 

[phantomdesign]

XP x64, P5B-Deluxe, 4 GB ram

Fixed

Anyway, I'm doing dual-boot Vista 64 & XP 64. Vista has so many driver issues, random problems, unexplained slowness, huge resource hog, incomparability issues, more advanced software crashes more often, difficult to change system settings, etc. The only reason to go Vista is DX10; which could have easily been put in XP. harddrive and network read/writes also seem significantly slower for some reason (or maybe it's just me).

This is personal experience speaking, so take it as you will. You can always dual-boot, but I recommend for most applications you stick to XP.

 

[TCfromBN]

I wasn't looking for what you think is wrong with Vista, I'm asking if anyone knows if remapping and PAE slow down the system. I'm fully aware that Vista has a few issues atm.


I have XP 32 bit also, and don't tell me "go back to XP." I'm just looking for a few answers.

 

[phantomdesign]

Sorry, I get distracted sometimes. There needs to be a t-shirt that says

"I went to Vista, and all I got was this lousy attitude!"

 

[TCfromBN]

Heh, yeah, well I need a new T-shirt that says...

"I tried to update my BIOS with AsusUpdate, and all I got was this lousy brick."



rma'd