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I just thought they both used "Gigabyte". With hard drive manufacturers taking the prefix literally Giga-byte = Billion bytes and computers using a different definition and Gigabyte being 2^30 bytes.Originally Posted by tetrisgoat
Welcome to enlightenment. <-- Said by future tetrisgoat.
I've been doing it for a few years, but only started enforcing it since December. Speaking of which, what did you think it was? I'm genuinely curious, seeing how you phrased it..
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I know they do. And I realise I have more than 8GB RAM, for I have 8192MiB of RAM in both my notebook and my desktop. 8GiB. Originally Posted by taekvideo
Not according to the manufacturers.
If you buy a 4GB stick of ram it'll have 4096MB, just check cpu-z if you don't believe me
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2011-08-18, 07:01 AM #23The Lightbringer
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is it odd that your extremely anal-retentive knowledge of the technicalities is making me want to find you and hug you? Originally Posted by tetrisgoat
I know they do. And I realise I have more than 8GB RAM, for I have 8192MiB of RAM in both my notebook and my desktop. 8GiB.
if you, i retract that statement and issue this one:
Your technicalities impress me greatly.
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2011-08-18, 07:02 AM #24Herald of the Titans
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From now on I will refer to them exclusively as 931GiB HDD's and scoff at anyone who dares to measure the size of an HDD in GB or TB.
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.
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