View Full Version : 64bit Vista & 4gb of ram?
hagatha
12-17-2007, 05:33 PM
Greetings,
Will Vista 64 recognize 4gb of ram?
What kind of performance boost can one expect using like 2-4gb ready boost flash drive?
hagatha
zanzabar
12-17-2007, 05:49 PM
vista 64 can do 32GB or 64GB im not sure what one, but for gaming u wont see a gain at the moment since nothign uses that much ram but if u do video editing large file compression or photoshop then u will see a huge difference in encoding time
and if u have a good HD then ready boost is useless since it moves ur pageing files to a usb drive and u dont even need paging files if u have a good amount of ram
You will notice a large difference especially in games going from 2 to 4gigs of memory in vista 64bit.
That I can assure you.
Jazz_Data
12-17-2007, 06:43 PM
You might still have the 4 gig memory limitation if your board supports only 4 gigs of RAM (meaning: having a 64 bit OS installed with 4 gigs of RAM and seing less usable in Windows)
Make sure your Board supports 8 or more gigs of ram
You might still have the 4 gig memory limitation if your board supports only 4 gigs of RAM (meaning: having a 64 bit OS installed with 4 gigs of RAM and seing less usable in Windows)
Make sure your Board supports 8 or more gigs of ram
His board does support 8GB of ram.
hagatha
12-18-2007, 03:04 PM
Thanks for all the replies...
I spend equal amounts of time gaming and working with 3D AutoCAD. The 4 gigs of RAM will be a must then.
Thanks
hagatha
Scubar
12-18-2007, 03:12 PM
4GB makes a big diff over 2GB on Vista. I had 2GB then moved onto 4GB and now i have 8GB in my system as i use alot of memory intensive programs like Vmware. It does make the system run alot smoother and helps with gaming too.
do we have to install some sort of a hotfix in order to use all 4gigs of ram or will it just get automatically recognized by the (64 bit) OS
KorbenD
12-20-2007, 06:36 AM
It should recognize it automatically. On some motherboards, you may have to enable Memory Remapping in the BIOS.
MikeB12
12-20-2007, 07:17 AM
mine grabbed it auto..
Abit IP35
http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/3884/32648455qn9.jpg
Vista32bit reported 3.25gb....
ok mine was recognized but I did not notice an increase in the pagefile. Is there a way we can increase the space for that, to further get more performance?