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Windows 7 memory limit

Discussion in 'Windows 7' started by bigtwenty, 2009/01/13.

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    bigtwenty

    bigtwenty Inactive Thread Starter

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    Does anyone know if the 32bit version of windows 7 is going to have the 4GB memory limit that previous installs have? Installed onto Dell Latitude D630 with no issues. LOVE the new control panel. I think windows has finally done something real good here, as long as they write drivers like a mother. Although all the vista driver are supposed to work...
     
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    Keep in mind that companies like ATI/Nviada/HP are the comapines responsible for creating drivers;)
     
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    bigtwenty

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    This is true, I minced my words, anyone know about the mem limit? I just assume 32 bit means 4GB limit...
     
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    Arie

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    ANY 32-bit OS will be 3.x GB. The x will be determined by factors such as the size of your video memory.
     
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    bigtwenty

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    yeah, that much i figured. Wonder if support for Windows 7 64 bit will be better than all previous OS's. Probably not, 98 percent of the people dont care about 64 bit, especially with the invention of readyboost.
     
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    Arie

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    There's lots of support building for 64-bit. I've been running Vista x64 on my laptop for 2 years now.
     
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    Microsoft says readyboost doesn't do anything for people with over 512mb of memory anyway, for me it only slowed things down, no matter how much memory.
     
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    I have seen tests of people with 2GB of memory and Readyboost has improved performance slightly, But i was more or less referring to the marketing rather than actual specs.
     
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    I use my computer mostly for games and games require a lot of paging, flash drives are not good for copying quickly.
     
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    Yeah ready boost AND superfetch both **** for gaming espescially WOW
     
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    Yeah, programs seem to open a lot faster in Vista but for gaming its a different story. :(
     
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    bigtwenty

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    I should start a new thread, but does anyone know about performance improvments as far as superfetch in windows 7?
     
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    Arie

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    I've tried RB with Vista & Win7 (both x64 & x86) and with 2GB never noticed any difference during normal usage.
     
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    Arie

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    I don't know, and to be honest it doesn't interest me at all. Any Windows 7 machine should have at least 2GB memory (being a new machine, since it will be the end of 2009 the earliest when Win7 ships), and like I said, during everyday use you don't notice any difference when having 1GB or more RAM.
     
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