i was advised recently in this forum that i couldn't use 4gb of ram (4x1gb) in 32-bit vista. is this correct? i'm self building:- asus p5b e6600 vista home premium 32-bit .. and i was planning to get 4gb of ram. ?
Yea, 4294967296 bytes can be recognized by 32-bit addresses. But Windows will only be able to address 3.2GB of it due to overheads of addressing. You can change a switch to increase it, but it can cause problems with programs.
get 4... 4x1gig in dual chan will be faster than 3... plus windows can only give 2gig/thread (or at least in xp/2k3) so you will have the ability to have 2 threads using quite a lot of ram - Win2k3 sees 3.5 gig of 4gig btw
Yea, it does explicitly say in the table that Windows Home Premium 32 bit edition supports a maximum of 16gb of ram. Not sure whether it's true or not thoguh.
16 gb = 2 GB If that's not a typo then maybe it means the Home Premium works even there's 16 GBs of ram, but won't boot if there's 17 GB! The point is how much is the amount it can utilize correctly I guess.
Vista 64-bit supports 16gb of ram due to 64-bit memory addressing. I think I am right in saying that it is ONLY the 64-bit edition that supports 16gb.
Uhuh since it's 32bit it will see the amount that the OS can successfully utilise http://windowsmvp.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!80195647FE07388F!157.entry If only there was more support for 64bit ey?
vista 64-bit support is alot better than people are saying AFAIK, you don't see many people bitching about it
The main problems I have with 64 bit are webcam and DTV drivers. That's all. Untill they are sorted, I won't be using it.
It's not too bad but if you have a creative sound card then you're screwed...the 32bit version of the drivers is bad enough currently
My Vista Ultimate x64 supports 128GB. Only the Home versions have their wings clipped at 8GB & 16GB. Correspondingly, ALL x86 versions are limited to 4GB. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-Vista-Maximum-Supported-RAM-44487.shtml
hmmm 32bit will have a tech max of 4GB cjmwork2...so unless there is a home 64 bit (which there could be... I don't know though)... then you are wrong. You guys might be confused when someone says 16gb. Jipa explains it but i'll say it in a full sentance... 16 gigabits is not the same as what we normally talk about... gigabytes - to convert gigabits (gb) to gigabytes (GB) you have to divide by 8...16/8 = 2 GB. Ed
hmmmz didnt know that Ed, I had thought it was 128GB but when no one else said it i thought i may have been dreaming it lol 128GB is yet another advantage of ultimate.
I think you need to re-read it. All x86 version are limited to 4GB; x64 version limits range from 8GB to 128GB depending on your version.
