If I were to...

... buy 8GB's of memory (RAM) for my PC, I realize that my current Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit installation will still be limited to using 4GB total (I've got 768MB on my GFX card so only 3328MB will be used by the OS, that's why I only have 3072MB [3GB] memory now) but would my Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit installation still benefit from the 8GB's?

Basically I'm wondering; Will there be some kind of limitation on the 8GB's because I have Vista 32-bit on my machine?

I'm eventually going to upgrade to a 64-bit OS as my mainstream OS anyways, so it's not really going to waste. Also, could anyone recommend some good performance DDR2 memory modules from this website? I was thinking either 2 x of these (1066) or 2 x of these (800)... I'm not sure if I need to jump up to 1066 yet, looking for 6.0+ WEI rating if that helps...

Thanks in advance!

Freelancer852 said:

... buy 8GB's of memory (RAM) for my PC, I realize that my current Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit installation will still be limited to using 4GB total (I've got 768MB on my GFX card so only 3328MB will be used by the OS, that's why I only have 3072MB [3GB] memory now) but would my Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit installation still benefit from the 8GB's?

Basically I'm wondering; Will there be some kind of limitation on the 8GB's because I have Vista 32-bit on my machine?

I'm eventually going to upgrade to a 64-bit OS as my mainstream OS anyways, so it's not really going to waste. Also, could anyone recommend some good performance DDR2 memory modules from this website? I was thinking either 2 x of these (1066) or 2 x of these (800)... I'm not sure if I need to jump up to 1066 yet, looking for 6.0+ WEI rating if that helps...

Thanks in advance!

it would not matter which memory you took, as WEI scores are limited to a max of 5.9 anyway

Dzomlija said:

it would not matter which memory you took, as WEI scores are limited to a max of 5.9 anyway

WEI score in Windows 7 is Limited to 7.9

Mr GRiM said:

WEI score in Windows 7 is Limited to 7.9

My bad - I was thinking about Vista.

I'm up to my ears in building new computers this morning...

hethoofd said:

Faster is always better If you can afford both, then pick the faster ones.

I'm a fiend about getting decent price/performance ratio hardware though, I can afford to buy about $350 worth of memory right now. I've read that my Q6600 will perform better with 1066 memory than with 800 memory, is this correct? Are the memory modules that I selected for 1066 fairly high performance right now?