show/hide this revision's text 5 added 6 characters in body

The first thing you will probably need for using 4GB or more of RAM is a shift to 64-bit OS.

Beyond that,

But, going towards more RAM and moving to 64-bit OS has its own constraints.
A lot of the usual stuff is not yet quite stable (or even available in some cases) for 64-bit systems.

Worthwhile question -- Do You Really Need More Than 6 GB Of RAM?, even 4GB

show/hide this revision's text 4 added 186 characters in body; added 163 characters in body; added 55 characters in body

The first thing you will probably need for using 4GB or more of RAM is a shift to 64-bit OS.

Beyond that,

But, going towards more RAM and moving to 64-bit OS has its own constraints.
A lot of the usual stuff is not yet quite stable (or even available in some cases) for 64-bit systems.
Worthwhile question -- Do You Really Need More Than 6 GB Of RAM?, even 4GB

show/hide this revision's text 3 added 123 characters in body; added 265 characters in body

The first thing you will probably need for using 4GB or more of RAM is a shift to 64-bit OS.

Beyond that,

show/hide this revision's text 2 added 94 characters in body; added 139 characters in body; added 95 characters in body
show/hide this revision's text 1