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Hi all,<BR>
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I am currently helping a friend spec out a computer which is to be used for creating video productions. The plan is to run a Linux based system utilising the various Free/OSS tools available for this task. Given the task at hand, we are spec-ing it out with as much RAM, the best CPU, video-card and sound-card we can afford. A question came up as to how much RAM is Linux capable of using [also whether it is capable of fully utilising quad-core CPU's. We could for example stick 6 GB of RAM into this machine [the motherboard we're looking at has slots to allow for this] but I am not able to say at the moment [for certain] whether Linux is capable of using this much RAM - particularly using a bog-standard distro. If we were to load it up with the latest fedora, would [fedora] be capable of making use of 6GB RAM? Also, if we put in a CORE 2 Quad Q 6600 [as per <A HREF="http://www.ple.com.au/?p=extremeint">http://www.ple.com.au/?p=extremeint</A> ] would it be able to use all 4 cores [I'm not up-to-speed with whether a quad core system actually comprises 4 cpu's or a single cpu with 4 internal processing units or something].<BR>
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I've done a bit of a google on this but while it seems there are at least configurations out there that can utilise as much as 64GB of RAM, I don't know if you have to do some special configuration to allow linux to utilise this kind of hardware, or whether a bog-standard distro will recognise and use it?<BR>
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thanks heaps guys,<BR>
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David.
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