| Windows 7: Question about RAM on Windows 7 Ultimate x64 |
02 Jun 2011
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#1 | | Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (desktop) / x64 (laptop) |
Question about RAM on Windows 7 Ultimate x64 As far as I know, depending on what bit a computer's OS of Windows 7, the RAM that the computer can use will vary. So, if I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate x64 as my OS, how big of a RAM can it use for the system? | My System Specs |
| OS Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (desktop) / x64 (laptop) CPU AMD Phenom 2 X3 720 2.8 GHz (desktop) / AMD Dual-Core E-350 Motherboard ASRock N68-VS3 UCC / Acer Aspire 5253 Memory 4 Gb DDR3 / 4Gb DD3 Graphics Card Nvidia GeForce GTS 450 2048 Mb / AMD Radeon HD 6310 Sound Card High Definition Audio Device Monitor(s) Displays ViewSonic Screen Resolution 1024 x 768 / 1366 x 768 Keyboard Logitech Keyboard Mouse A4tech Infrared Mouse / Philips Infrared Mouse PSU Electron ATX-600W Case Some Case Cooling AMD built-in cooling fan Hard Drives 313GB Seagate ST332041 8AS SCSI Disk Device (ATA) / 500 Gb HDD Internet Speed 1 Mbps Other Info Information of the PC's specs courtesy of Speccy freeware. Lol. |
02 Jun 2011
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#2 | | W7 Professional x64 Portland, OR |
Likely it will be the maximum supported by your motherboard. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Pugh Technologies OS W7 Professional x64 CPU AMD Athlon II X3 445 Rana 3.10 GHz Motherboard MSI 870A-G54 Memory PNY XLR DDR3 1600 4x2GB Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 (fermi) 1GB GDDR5 Sound Card Realtek ALC892 onboard Monitor(s) Displays ASUS VE205t, Viewsonic VX2035WM Screen Resolution 1600x900, 1600x1050 Keyboard Logitec 55 Mouse Razer Deathadder PSU Antec EarthWatts EA650 650W Case ThermalTake Armor A90 Mid Tower Cooling 3x 120mm in, 1x 120mm & 200mm out, self built hydro-cooler Hard Drives 977GB Hitachi Hitachi HDS721010CLA332
244GB Western Digital WDC WD2500AAJS-65B4A0
488GB Western Digital WDC WD5000AAJS-00A8B0
488GB Western Digital WDC WD5000AAKS-00UU3A0 Internet Speed 20 Mbps D/L, 9 Mbps U/L |
02 Jun 2011
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Windows 7 x64 Professional and Ultimate maximum supported RAM, 192 GB.
Windows 7 x64 Home Premium maximum supported RAM, 16 GB. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Alienware Aurora ALX R4 OS Windows 7 x64 (SP1) CPU Intel Core i7-3930K (3.2GHz, Turbo 4GHz) Motherboard Alienware Aurora-R4 x79 Memory 4x Samsung 4GB PC3-12800 DDR3 (16GB 1600MHz) Graphics Card Nvidia Geforce GTX 690 (Stock) Sound Card RealTek Integrated Audio Monitor(s) Displays Dell UltraSharp U3011 Screen Resolution 2560x1600 Other Info Dell Inspiron Mini 10v (Intel Atom N270 1.6 GHz; 1GB; Windows 7 Ultimate) |
02 Jun 2011
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#4 | | Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (desktop) / x64 (laptop) |

Quote: Originally Posted by LiquidSnak Likely it will be the maximum supported by your motherboard.  So the amount of RAM a computer uses would be dependent on what the motherboard supports and not on the OS itself? | My System Specs | | OS Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (desktop) / x64 (laptop) CPU AMD Phenom 2 X3 720 2.8 GHz (desktop) / AMD Dual-Core E-350 Motherboard ASRock N68-VS3 UCC / Acer Aspire 5253 Memory 4 Gb DDR3 / 4Gb DD3 Graphics Card Nvidia GeForce GTS 450 2048 Mb / AMD Radeon HD 6310 Sound Card High Definition Audio Device Monitor(s) Displays ViewSonic Screen Resolution 1024 x 768 / 1366 x 768 Keyboard Logitech Keyboard Mouse A4tech Infrared Mouse / Philips Infrared Mouse PSU Electron ATX-600W Case Some Case Cooling AMD built-in cooling fan Hard Drives 313GB Seagate ST332041 8AS SCSI Disk Device (ATA) / 500 Gb HDD Internet Speed 1 Mbps Other Info Information of the PC's specs courtesy of Speccy freeware. Lol. |
02 Jun 2011
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#5 | | Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (desktop) / x64 (laptop) |

Quote: Originally Posted by logicearth Windows 7 x64 Professional and Ultimate maximum supported RAM, 192 GB.
Windows 7 x64 Home Premium maximum supported RAM, 16 GB. I'm not sure what you're talking about. It seems you're referring with mainframe or some super computers with this spec, but I'm asking for the laptop / desktop ones. This laptop has 4 Gb RAM in it and has Windows 7 Ultimate x64 as its OS, but only uses 3.73 Gb of that 4 Gb total RAM. How come then this is the case if a x64 Windows 7 Ultimate Edition can use as far as 192 Gb of RAM? | My System Specs | | OS Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (desktop) / x64 (laptop) CPU AMD Phenom 2 X3 720 2.8 GHz (desktop) / AMD Dual-Core E-350 Motherboard ASRock N68-VS3 UCC / Acer Aspire 5253 Memory 4 Gb DDR3 / 4Gb DD3 Graphics Card Nvidia GeForce GTS 450 2048 Mb / AMD Radeon HD 6310 Sound Card High Definition Audio Device Monitor(s) Displays ViewSonic Screen Resolution 1024 x 768 / 1366 x 768 Keyboard Logitech Keyboard Mouse A4tech Infrared Mouse / Philips Infrared Mouse PSU Electron ATX-600W Case Some Case Cooling AMD built-in cooling fan Hard Drives 313GB Seagate ST332041 8AS SCSI Disk Device (ATA) / 500 Gb HDD Internet Speed 1 Mbps Other Info Information of the PC's specs courtesy of Speccy freeware. Lol. |
02 Jun 2011
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#6 | | Win7 Ultimate SP1 x64 / Windows 8 Pro / Android Mauritius |

Quote: Originally Posted by dothackjhe 
Quote: Originally Posted by logicearth Windows 7 x64 Professional and Ultimate maximum supported RAM, 192 GB.
Windows 7 x64 Home Premium maximum supported RAM, 16 GB. I'm not sure what you're talking about. It seems you're referring with mainframe or some super computers with this spec, but I'm asking for the laptop / desktop ones. This laptop has 4 Gb RAM in it and has Windows 7 Ultimate x64 as its OS, but only uses 3.73 Gb of that 4 Gb total RAM. Sorry for being rude, but apparently you're not giving me the right answer for my question. . Its perfectly normal for your laptop to use only 3.73GB since you have an integrated graphics card which 'shares' its memory with the RAM
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 supports up to 192GB but the maximum amount of RAM is limited to the laptop's board, most current laptops support up to 8GB | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom Build OS Win7 Ultimate SP1 x64 / Windows 8 Pro / Android CPU Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 OC'd 3.08GHz Motherboard Asus Rampage formula LGA775 Memory 8GB DDR2 900Mhz Graphics Card Zotac GTX 460OC 2GB GDDR5/Asus EN9600GT 1GB DDR3 PhyX Sound Card Supreme FX2 Monitor(s) Displays AOC 22' Screen Resolution 1680x1050 Keyboard Prolink keyboard Mouse Prolink optical mouse PSU Cooler Master GX 650W Cooling Cooler Master V6 + 3X fans Hard Drives 3X500GB hitachi, 2TB internal, 500GB Seagate FreeAgent, 640GB Samsung Internet Speed 1MiB/s Other Info 5.1 System + 2.1 System |
02 Jun 2011
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#7 | | Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (desktop) / x64 (laptop) |

Quote: Originally Posted by yowanvista 
Quote: Originally Posted by dothackjhe 
Quote: Originally Posted by logicearth Windows 7 x64 Professional and Ultimate maximum supported RAM, 192 GB.
Windows 7 x64 Home Premium maximum supported RAM, 16 GB. I'm not sure what you're talking about. It seems you're referring with mainframe or some super computers with this spec, but I'm asking for the laptop / desktop ones. This laptop has 4 Gb RAM in it and has Windows 7 Ultimate x64 as its OS, but only uses 3.73 Gb of that 4 Gb total RAM. Sorry for being rude, but apparently you're not giving me the right answer for my question. . Its perfectly normal for your laptop to use only 3.73GB since you have an integrated graphics card which 'shares' its memory with the RAM
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 supports up to 192GB but the maximum amount of RAM is limited to the laptop's board, most current laptops support up to 8GB I had this statement: "Sorry for being rude, but apparently you're not giving me the right answer for my question. ." omitted since I found out that the person who posted it was right. You're right as well with the fact this laptop uses a shared memory from RAM as its video memory which I kinda didn't notice earlier lol. Thanks for the info. | My System Specs | | OS Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (desktop) / x64 (laptop) CPU AMD Phenom 2 X3 720 2.8 GHz (desktop) / AMD Dual-Core E-350 Motherboard ASRock N68-VS3 UCC / Acer Aspire 5253 Memory 4 Gb DDR3 / 4Gb DD3 Graphics Card Nvidia GeForce GTS 450 2048 Mb / AMD Radeon HD 6310 Sound Card High Definition Audio Device Monitor(s) Displays ViewSonic Screen Resolution 1024 x 768 / 1366 x 768 Keyboard Logitech Keyboard Mouse A4tech Infrared Mouse / Philips Infrared Mouse PSU Electron ATX-600W Case Some Case Cooling AMD built-in cooling fan Hard Drives 313GB Seagate ST332041 8AS SCSI Disk Device (ATA) / 500 Gb HDD Internet Speed 1 Mbps Other Info Information of the PC's specs courtesy of Speccy freeware. Lol. |
02 Jun 2011
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#8 | | W7 Professional x64 Portland, OR |

Quote: Originally Posted by dothackjhe 
Quote: Originally Posted by LiquidSnak Likely it will be the maximum supported by your motherboard.  So the amount of RAM a computer uses would be dependent on what the motherboard supports and not on the OS itself? It is a double edged sword, really. The amount of RAM that can be addressed is limited by 32 bit software, but your motherboard does determine how much memory is available to the OS in the first place. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Pugh Technologies OS W7 Professional x64 CPU AMD Athlon II X3 445 Rana 3.10 GHz Motherboard MSI 870A-G54 Memory PNY XLR DDR3 1600 4x2GB Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 (fermi) 1GB GDDR5 Sound Card Realtek ALC892 onboard Monitor(s) Displays ASUS VE205t, Viewsonic VX2035WM Screen Resolution 1600x900, 1600x1050 Keyboard Logitec 55 Mouse Razer Deathadder PSU Antec EarthWatts EA650 650W Case ThermalTake Armor A90 Mid Tower Cooling 3x 120mm in, 1x 120mm & 200mm out, self built hydro-cooler Hard Drives 977GB Hitachi Hitachi HDS721010CLA332
244GB Western Digital WDC WD2500AAJS-65B4A0
488GB Western Digital WDC WD5000AAJS-00A8B0
488GB Western Digital WDC WD5000AAKS-00UU3A0 Internet Speed 20 Mbps D/L, 9 Mbps U/L |
02 Jun 2011
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#9 | | Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (desktop) / x64 (laptop) |

Quote: Originally Posted by LiquidSnak 
Quote: Originally Posted by dothackjhe 
Quote: Originally Posted by LiquidSnak Likely it will be the maximum supported by your motherboard.  So the amount of RAM a computer uses would be dependent on what the motherboard supports and not on the OS itself? It is a double edged sword, really. The amount of RAM that can be addressed is limited by 32 bit software, but your motherboard does determine how much memory is available to the OS in the first place. I see. Thanks. | My System Specs | | OS Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (desktop) / x64 (laptop) CPU AMD Phenom 2 X3 720 2.8 GHz (desktop) / AMD Dual-Core E-350 Motherboard ASRock N68-VS3 UCC / Acer Aspire 5253 Memory 4 Gb DDR3 / 4Gb DD3 Graphics Card Nvidia GeForce GTS 450 2048 Mb / AMD Radeon HD 6310 Sound Card High Definition Audio Device Monitor(s) Displays ViewSonic Screen Resolution 1024 x 768 / 1366 x 768 Keyboard Logitech Keyboard Mouse A4tech Infrared Mouse / Philips Infrared Mouse PSU Electron ATX-600W Case Some Case Cooling AMD built-in cooling fan Hard Drives 313GB Seagate ST332041 8AS SCSI Disk Device (ATA) / 500 Gb HDD Internet Speed 1 Mbps Other Info Information of the PC's specs courtesy of Speccy freeware. Lol. Question about RAM on Windows 7 Ultimate x64 problems? All times are GMT -5. The time now is 03:35 AM. | |