Why Vista 32-bit won't "recognize" all of your 4GB of RAM

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Why Vista 32-bit won't "recognize" all of your 4GB of RAM

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While researching PC building, I found this.

http://addressof.com/blog/archive/2007/ ... 2E00_.aspx
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Re: Why Vista 32-bit won't "recognize" all of your 4GB of RA

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I also got windows vista 32-bit and 4 gb ram, to bad the system only can use 3,25 gb ram. The 64-bit i think is unlimited.

xp was way much better... but vista works
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Re: Why Vista 32-bit won't "recognize" all of your 4GB of RA

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[quote=""rambo098""]I also got windows vista 32-bit and 4 gb ram, to bad the system only can use 3,25 gb ram. [/quote]

XP would have had the same problem. ;)

2 ^ 32 Byte = 4 294 967 296 Bytes = 4GB, The maximum of memory a 32 bit processor or program can address.

64 bit has also a maximum 2^64 Byte -> 16777216 TByte

Well but till u have Tbyte as memory u need some time ;)
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Re: Why Vista 32-bit won't "recognize" all of your 4GB of RA

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32 bit architecture limits the ram, as you guys have seen.

Comadevil is right in calculating how much TB of ram you could use (I think, but it could have been 16TB, miunno)

However, I believe that Vista 64bit has a current limit of 16GB of ram, as a coded-in limit. The Architecture allows much more, but they just don't know how it will affect the OS, I guess.
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Re: Why Vista 32-bit won't "recognize" all of your 4GB of RA

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RAM Limits of Vista

Home Basic 8 GB
Home Premium 16 GB
Business, Enterprise, Ultimate 128 GB
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Re: Why Vista 32-bit won't "recognize" all of your 4GB of RA

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"re: Windows Vista "supports" 4GB of memory. Sure it does...
Friday, November 02, 2007 6:08 PM by some dude
No matter how much RAM you have installed 32 bit vista/XP can actually only use 2GB's of it. Now servers are another story. "

i try to tell folks this, But they rarely believe me :(
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