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RAM and Windows 7 32-Bit
Posted by:
eesh
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Date: May 07, 2012 09:42PM
Alright, I know you need 64-Bit if you want anything more than 4 GB of RAM....but what is the maximum amount of RAM that 32-Bit can utilize?
I keep hearing conflicting answers, most say 3.5 GB is the most that is available, but others say "depends on your configuration" and can be as low as 2 GB.
What gives?
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I keep hearing conflicting answers, most say 3.5 GB is the most that is available, but others say "depends on your configuration" and can be as low as 2 GB.
What gives?
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Re: RAM and Windows 7 32-Bit
Posted by:
the unstat guy
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Date: May 08, 2012 03:44AM
How many pictures do you have on your hard drives?
Re: RAM and Windows 7 32-Bit
Posted by:
eesh
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Date: May 08, 2012 03:48AM
the unstat guy Wrote:
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> How many pictures do you have on your hard drives?
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> How many pictures do you have on your hard drives?
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Re: RAM and Windows 7 32-Bit
Posted by:
the unstat guy
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Date: May 08, 2012 04:49AM
eesh made me giggle
i just hope I don't have a bad dream
i just hope I don't have a bad dream
Re: RAM and Windows 7 32-Bit
Posted by:
jhey
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Date: May 08, 2012 07:54AM
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/hiltonl/archive/2007/04/13/the-3gb-not-4gb-ram-problem.aspx
tldr: The hardware reserves a chunk of RAM before the OS is loaded, limiting the amount of RAM available to Windows.
tldr: The hardware reserves a chunk of RAM before the OS is loaded, limiting the amount of RAM available to Windows.
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Re: RAM and Windows 7 32-Bit
Posted by:
Ralph Pootawn
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Date: May 08, 2012 08:12AM
I have a machine with Win7 Ultimate and 4 GBs RAM installed, and it says 3.25 usable.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/08/2012 08:12AM by Ralph Pootawn.
Re: RAM and Windows 7 32-Bit
Posted by:
the stat guy
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Date: May 08, 2012 11:24AM
"I have a machine with Win7 Ultimate and 4 GBs RAM installed, and it says 3.25 usable"
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Re: RAM and Windows 7 32-Bit
Posted by:
eesh
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Date: May 08, 2012 08:43PM
jhey Wrote:
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> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/hiltonl/archive/2007/04/13
> /the-3gb-not-4gb-ram-problem.aspx
>
> tldr: The hardware reserves a chunk of RAM before
> the OS is loaded, limiting the amount of RAM
> available to Windows.
Thank you jhey. I wish you would post more.
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> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/hiltonl/archive/2007/04/13
> /the-3gb-not-4gb-ram-problem.aspx
>
> tldr: The hardware reserves a chunk of RAM before
> the OS is loaded, limiting the amount of RAM
> available to Windows.
Thank you jhey. I wish you would post more.
Re: RAM and Windows 7 32-Bit
Posted by:
Teh King
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Date: May 08, 2012 09:24PM
Video card memory mapping chews up available RAM. The more video memory, the less available RAM. And I'm not referring to shared RAM for video memory on low end systems. If you have a video card with 1GB of memory, you'll use up 1GB of system RAM.
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"The three enemies of the people are hegemony, monogamy, and monotony."-Terence McKenna
Re: RAM and Windows 7 32-Bit
Posted by:
Wrong!
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Date: May 08, 2012 09:52PM
Teh King Wrote:
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> Video card memory mapping chews up available RAM.
> The more video memory, the less available RAM. And
> I'm not referring to shared RAM for video memory
> on low end systems. If you have a video card with
> 1GB of memory, you'll use up 1GB of system RAM.
Absolutely not true.
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> Video card memory mapping chews up available RAM.
> The more video memory, the less available RAM. And
> I'm not referring to shared RAM for video memory
> on low end systems. If you have a video card with
> 1GB of memory, you'll use up 1GB of system RAM.
Absolutely not true.
Re: RAM and Windows 7 32-Bit
Posted by:
eesh
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Date: May 08, 2012 11:15PM
the stat guy Wrote:
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> eesh more pictures
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> eesh more pictures
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Re: RAM and Windows 7 32-Bit
Posted by:
eesh
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Date: May 08, 2012 11:16PM
Wrong! Wrote:
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> Teh King Wrote:
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> -----
> > Video card memory mapping chews up available
> RAM.
> > The more video memory, the less available RAM.
> And
> > I'm not referring to shared RAM for video
> memory
> > on low end systems. If you have a video card
> with
> > 1GB of memory, you'll use up 1GB of system RAM.
>
>
> Absolutely not true.
Please explain.
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> Teh King Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Video card memory mapping chews up available
> RAM.
> > The more video memory, the less available RAM.
> And
> > I'm not referring to shared RAM for video
> memory
> > on low end systems. If you have a video card
> with
> > 1GB of memory, you'll use up 1GB of system RAM.
>
>
> Absolutely not true.
Please explain.
Re: RAM and Windows 7 32-Bit
Posted by:
Teh King
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Date: May 09, 2012 10:00AM
eesh Wrote:
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> Wrong! Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Teh King Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Video card memory mapping chews up available
> > RAM.
> > > The more video memory, the less available
> RAM.
> > And
> > > I'm not referring to shared RAM for video
> > memory
> > > on low end systems. If you have a video card
> > with
> > > 1GB of memory, you'll use up 1GB of system
> RAM.
> >
> >
> > Absolutely not true.
>
>
>
>
> Please explain.
Yes, please.
How much video memory is mapped and why does it seem to vary from system to system?
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> Wrong! Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Teh King Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Video card memory mapping chews up available
> > RAM.
> > > The more video memory, the less available
> RAM.
> > And
> > > I'm not referring to shared RAM for video
> > memory
> > > on low end systems. If you have a video card
> > with
> > > 1GB of memory, you'll use up 1GB of system
> RAM.
> >
> >
> > Absolutely not true.
>
>
>
>
> Please explain.
Yes, please.
How much video memory is mapped and why does it seem to vary from system to system?
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"The three enemies of the people are hegemony, monogamy, and monotony."-Terence McKenna
Re: RAM and Windows 7 32-Bit
Posted by:
Windows32
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Date: May 09, 2012 10:57AM
There's no simple answer to how much video memory is mapped. Numerous things can affect that, I suspect e.g. screen resolution, color depth, amount of video card memory, et.al. The "shared" video memory works a lot like a page file for graphics operations. If a particular graphics operation requires more memory than what's on the video card, it will use some of this shared system memory. In 32-bit Windows, there is a section of memory at the high end of the 4 gig. addressable space that is reserved for use by peripherals, not just video card, but pretty much anything on the PCI bus.