how much ram?

[joevh09]

i know this sounds stupid but what is the max amount of ram that xp supports?

[Calum]

Standard XP supports up to 4GB of memory.  This is not just RAM, video memory and reserved memory for devices will take chunks out of this limit.
For example if you have 4GB of RAM, you'll probably see around 3.8GB at the most, more realistically something like 3.5GB or less.
There may be limits on your board too.
Hope this helps.

[joevh09]

my board supports 16gb(which i don't plan on having that much for a long time)
 and thank you it did help.

[Calum]

You're welcome, happy to help.

[Quantos]

If you have XP 64 bit then it will support more than 4GB.

[Calum]

That's why I started my post saying "Standard XP".  XP X64 edition and Windows XP 64-bit support more RAM, sure, as do server versions of Windows.

[Quantos]

ROFL, thanks for repeating yourself Calum, I'd missed that.

[Calum]

Heh, no problem.
It was more me being pedantic than anything really.