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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: vksaravanan on February 09, 2010, 10:07:01 PM

Title: Max. RAM which supports my pc
Post by: vksaravanan on February 09, 2010, 10:07:01 PM
Hi,

I am having an HCL P4 PC, kindly help me, upto what extent i can upgrade my RAM.

regards,

V K Saravanan
Title: Re: Max. RAM which supports my pc
Post by: cruisin702 on February 09, 2010, 10:26:38 PM
Visit crucial.com or memory-up.com , They both have free scanners that will let you know what you have already and what you can upgrade to. You don't have to buy from them but they will let you know what you need.
Title: Re: Max. RAM which supports my pc
Post by: lino4 on February 09, 2010, 10:29:24 PM
Most motherboards will take up to 16 or 32 GB of RAM, but you need a 64bit operating system to use more than 3GB of RAM.

Which OS are you running now?
Title: Re: Max. RAM which supports my pc
Post by: patio on February 10, 2010, 06:48:52 AM
Quote from: lino4 on February 09, 2010, 10:29:24 PM
Most motherboards will take up to 16 or 32 GB of RAM, but you need a 64bit operating system to use more than 3GB of RAM.

Which OS are you running now?

A P4 board that will take 16 to 32GB of RAM ? ?
Title: Re: Max. RAM which supports my pc
Post by: vksaravanan on February 10, 2010, 09:49:53 PM
Quote from: lino4 on February 09, 2010, 10:29:24 PM
Most motherboards will take up to 16 or 32 GB of RAM, but you need a 64bit operating system to use more than 3GB of RAM.

Which OS are you running now?

Presently i am working with Windows XP
Title: Re: Max. RAM which supports my pc
Post by: Geek-9pm on February 10, 2010, 10:03:33 PM
Quote from: patio on February 10, 2010, 06:48:52 AM
A P4 board that will take 16 to 32GB of RAM ? ?
Yes, but not for home use. Some servers were built with PAE hardware.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc784574%28WS.10%29.aspx
Notice the reference is only to servers, not desktop systems.
Title: Re: Max. RAM which supports my pc
Post by: patio on February 11, 2010, 06:59:16 AM
As i said...