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What determins this? Is it the motherboard?
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Maximum Installed Memory
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In part. The BIOS has a lot to do with it as well.
High-end systems, for commercial graphics work can have several Gb of memory......
High-end systems, for commercial graphics work can have several Gb of memory......
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reddeathdrinker said:
Does the bios come with the motherboard or what does it come with?
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Thelemac said:
Sorry, Thelemac. Bad jugment by me and thanks for moving it.
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The amount of addressable memory depends on the architecture and the chipset as well as the BIOS.
The maximum number of addressable locations = 2 ^ (address bus width). For a 32bit address bus this is 4.3 x 10^9 locations approx.
Each location is a size the same as the data bus width. For a 24 bit data bus each location is 24 bits (3 bytes).
So a system with a 32 bit address bus and a 24 bit data bus can address approx 1.031 x 10 ^ 11 bits of memory.
This is:
1.29 x 10 ^ 10 bytes
1.26 x 10 ^ 7 kilobytes
12228 MB
12 Gigabytes
The maximum number of addressable locations = 2 ^ (address bus width). For a 32bit address bus this is 4.3 x 10^9 locations approx.
Each location is a size the same as the data bus width. For a 24 bit data bus each location is 24 bits (3 bytes).
So a system with a 32 bit address bus and a 24 bit data bus can address approx 1.031 x 10 ^ 11 bits of memory.
This is:
1.29 x 10 ^ 10 bytes
1.26 x 10 ^ 7 kilobytes
12228 MB
12 Gigabytes
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David said:
Put simply, a whole lot of freaking ram.
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12 Gigs is alot of RAM but how is there room enough to put that many sticks?
