idk what my computers problem is,
I can answer that. The only problem is that you are trying to hold your computer to the rules of Windows XP...when they don't apply anymore. Once you understand how Windows 7 uses memory, you'll see that you most likely have no issue at all and don't need more memory.
thank you for filling me in. it is good to know. still 32gb is rather important when you are live editing clips of data WHILE its caching, youl find the more you have, the more it can cache , in which case as you edit, more will free up, if you do not have enough, you will be editing as much as you are caching, slowing down your machine.
programs like mentalray take a SUDDEN hard hit on your ram then halt.
programs like lux render use a lot for a long time, as much as a week at once.
programs like maya and inventor fall in the same catagory of working while you are caching. when you have 3.9 million faces it has to prebuffer on you screen, only so much can be done on your graphics card.
and if you have a problem and need yo look somthing up while you are doing all this... your SOL.
there are three parts to this.
i NEED about 20gb of ram for rendering
i WANT allot of space left over
i LIKE to go a little over kill to partially future proof my machine should my other components upgrade and demand more
if i can find a way to fit 24gb of ram over 4 dims i will considder that, especially if it is less expensive. still, over kill is good in the media/communications industry.