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How much can windows support for ram? I was talking to this guy and I told him that 32bit supports 3.25 to 3.50 gigs and 64bit support up to 16 gigs. He told me that windows supports 2.5 gigs for 32bit. Then i told him that the ram that isn't used by windows can be used as a swap but it'll be unstable. My motherboard supports 8 gigs and I told him that the computer will support it but windows wont use it.
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32 bit versions of any OS can only support 4GB of RAM
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it can got to 16 gigs. thats what i have

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   * 32-bit versions of Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate: 4GB
   * 32-bit Windows Vista Starter: 1GB
   * 64-bit versions of Windows Vista Home Basic: 8GB
   * 64-bit versions of Windows Vista Home Premium: 16GB
   * 64-bit versions of Windows Vista Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate: 128GB
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Quote: from N e o at 12:27 am on April 10, 2008
   * 32-bit versions of Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate: 4GB
    * 32-bit Windows Vista Starter: 1GB
    * 64-bit versions of Windows Vista Home Basic: 8GB
    * 64-bit versions of Windows Vista Home Premium: 16GB
    * 64-bit versions of Windows Vista Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate: 128GB

Fuck... that's a lot.

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Quote: from N e o at 1:27 am on April 10, 2008
   * 32-bit versions of Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate: 4GB
    * 32-bit Windows Vista Starter: 1GB
    * 64-bit versions of Windows Vista Home Basic: 8GB
    * 64-bit versions of Windows Vista Home Premium: 16GB
    * 64-bit versions of Windows Vista Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate: 128GB

128gb...are you sure?

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Quote: from FurryPanther at 12:32 am on April 10, 2008
Quote: from N e o at 12:27 am on April 10, 2008
* 32-bit versions of Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate: 4GB  
  * 32-bit Windows Vista Starter: 1GB  
  * 64-bit versions of Windows Vista Home Basic: 8GB  
  * 64-bit versions of Windows Vista Home Premium: 16GB  
  * 64-bit versions of Windows Vista Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate: 128GB  
 

Fuck... that's a lot.

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To be honest, until I had just found that out using google... I did not know that there were such systems with the hardware capability to support that much ram.

My assumption is that it is primarily for server's that run massive networks or websites, but it is still a lot.

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Quote: from andrewcool at 12:34 am on April 10, 2008
Quote: from N e o at 1:27 am on April 10, 2008
* 32-bit versions of Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate: 4GB  
  * 32-bit Windows Vista Starter: 1GB  
  * 64-bit versions of Windows Vista Home Basic: 8GB  
  * 64-bit versions of Windows Vista Home Premium: 16GB  
  * 64-bit versions of Windows Vista Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate: 128GB  
 

128gb...are you sure?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946765 Under more information, third paragraph down.

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so will window read the full amount of ram the computer has and use all of it? what about windows xp?
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win xp is a 32bit system and will take only 4GB

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and for a 64 bit os it'll be like 16 gigs, correct? because of the memory addressing for it? but will windows xp use all 4 gb? my coworker told me 3.25
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It is important to remember that if you have 4GIG of RAM on a 32 bit system then you will not get all 4 gig of it, as your graphics card has to take up the same address space. So if you have a 512MB of graphics memory then your system will only get access to 3.5GB.

As for comments about how much RAM can hardware support etc, its fairly common for servers to support up to 16GB and this much RAM can be very nice for database systems. I have seen commercial servers go up to 32GB support, but passed that it starts to get a bit more specialist.

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so how does the video ram take place of the regular ram? sure there has to be a video output
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