More than 2 GB RAM for windows, useless?

2x 1gb is a good price, you'll have one ready if you need it or you, overclock too much you have a spare, you can always sell the other gb to a friend

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I currently have 1 GB of RAM and was deciding whether to buy two 512's or two 1GB sticks.

My friend tells me that I can get 3 GB but my comp will only use 2 GB. Is this true, what should I do?

SEANMCAD

FYI...Windows Vista 32bit (and maybe XP) can see at min 3ram (I think up to 3.5ram but not sure on that).

64bit can see much more but I forget the total, something like 16ram.

The amount vista 32bit sees depends on the memory on your video card it can see 4gb max of RAM including VRAM, flash memory and CPU cache.