Ah - you're right. 4GB of RAM, including that reserved for the board and/or expansion cards. (Still only shows up as 3.something GB, depending on the board and the cards, which you already knew.)
I have had problems in the past with some pieces of software (most notably Adobe products) just not liking certain versions of AMD chips (due to the chip's internal instruction set), but I thought they fixed most of those problems. And your problem sounds more like something with the OS, since it seems to 'get busy' looking for something, causing the stutters.
About half my render farm (10 boxes or so) is dual processor AMDs (actually 2 physical chips - these boxes pre-date dual core CPUs) running XP Pro SP3, so your choice of AMD shouldn't be the problem.
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Date: 2010-11-05 11:59 am (UTC)I have had problems in the past with some pieces of software (most notably Adobe products) just not liking certain versions of AMD chips (due to the chip's internal instruction set), but I thought they fixed most of those problems. And your problem sounds more like something with the OS, since it seems to 'get busy' looking for something, causing the stutters.
About half my render farm (10 boxes or so) is dual processor AMDs (actually 2 physical chips - these boxes pre-date dual core CPUs) running XP Pro SP3, so your choice of AMD shouldn't be the problem.