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RE: Vista

Vista will only recognize 3.5

According to this MS article Vista will only give you 3.12GB. XP Professional sees 4GB. It seems Vista reserves RAM as per RAM used on Graphics card. The only way more RAM can be accessed is using 64bit Vista. Going to 4GB RAM won't help.

blocking off 2 gig of RAM just for music playback

Blocking as in reserving 2GB RAM just for playback programs is not possible. OS controls RAM allocation based on actual runtime demands. Its much better to have a dedicated computer for music (and its relatively cheap).

NOTICED THAT MOST PROGRAMS ONLY USE AT MAX TWO OF THE CORES with FOOBAR and J. River Media Center 12 only one

Quad core processor is not an ideal choice due to its higher power consumption and clock speed. Having all 4 spinning up during music playback is unlikely: foobar will use 1-3 depending on OS (never tested J. River). Programs have to be designed to exploit this multi-core capability. For example, SRC upsampler component in foobar can benefit by splitting its workload across 2 or more threads. This is not done in SRC as yet.

doing a review of the Memory Player from Nova Physics Group for enjoythemusic.com. http://www.novaphysicsgroup.com/TheMemoryPlayer.html
Any relationship?

Apart from concept being similar (which is not something new), there's no relationship whatsoever. Would be interesting to do a comparison with cMP. For such comparison, I would recommend XP SP 2 Professional with ASIO 2.0 soundcard. Things like using minlogon instead of winlogon in XP has significant benefit and this is unlikely to be available in Vista. There are other optimizations that I'm not sure of when using Vista (like kernel changes).

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