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WinRAR
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| flogico wrote: | wow ..
8gb of ram..
mm.. must use vista..
xp can only display max of 3.2gb at 32bit winxp xD |
| Cheetah wrote: |
Sigh, getting tired of people spreading this misinformation. XP64 can handle up to 128GB, Vista is not necessary to recognize more than 4GB RAM.
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Humper
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| Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 3:48 am Post subject: |
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| VolcomSton3 wrote: | | flogico wrote: | wow ..
8gb of ram..
mm.. must use vista..
xp can only display max of 3.2gb at 32bit winxp xD |
| Cheetah wrote: |
Sigh, getting tired of people spreading this misinformation. XP64 can handle up to 128GB, Vista is not necessary to recognize more than 4GB RAM.
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Also some additionall info:
Vista 32bit can also only use 3.2gb
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| Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Cheetah wrote: | | Sigh, getting tired of people spreading this misinformation. XP64 can handle up to 128GB, Vista is not necessary to recognize more than 4GB RAM. |
Thanks for pointing that out. I should have stated that I was talking about the 32-bit version of XP.
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kls85
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| Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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Windows XP 32bit sees up to 3.2GB. Depending on your hardware configuration some may show less as less as 2.5GB.
Windows XP 64bit can see beyond 4GB.
Windows Vista 32bit without service pack 1 sees 3.2GB
With service pack 1 installed it sees 4GB, but this is just to show you
how much physical ram you installed, not how much Vista 32bit is using.
Windows Vista 64bit without service pack 1 displays it as 4096MB.
With service pack 1 it shows 4GB.
Note: Motherboard chipset limitation and bios setting also comes into play on how ram is detected.
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Cheetah
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| Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Correct me if I'm wrong, I haven't used a 32-bit OS in years, but isn't the limitation 4GB on a 32-bit OS, minus whatever the amount of total VRAM is?
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ghostofmccleve
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| Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Cheetah wrote: | | Correct me if I'm wrong, I haven't used a 32-bit OS in years, but isn't the limitation 4GB on a 32-bit OS, minus whatever the amount of total VRAM is? |
Yeah, I think that's right, except for a couple of 32-bit server OSs. I think a few versions of Server 2003 and 2008 can support up to 128 GB even if they are 32-bit.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 12:08 am Post subject: |
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| Cheetah wrote: | | Correct me if I'm wrong, I haven't used a 32-bit OS in years, but isn't the limitation 4GB on a 32-bit OS, minus whatever the amount of total VRAM is? |
4gb minus whatever needs to be mapped into that addressing space. There's other goodies lurking in there, but it's generally negligible in comparison to your VRAM.
Some versions of Windows server may support PAE as well, which will get your past the 4gb barrier by a bit.
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