sorry but how much ram in XP?

[AmdPopper]

ok im sorry but what is the highest amout of ram can XP home atually use?

thanks

 

[RangerJoe]

umm...this is an edit..

there isnt really a maximum amount..unless you have this one MSI board that supports like 16gb of ram..which im guessing you dont have...and most motherboards only support 3gb of ram...which is more than any regular users will need for a while

the only limit for ram is your motherboard really

 

[Namagomi]

umm
256mb or more is plenty..128 is really pushing it

Hi! I'm RangerJoe! I don't read posts!

 

[TheFrag]

Hi! I'm RangerJoe! I don't read posts!

SUP RANGER JOE!

Anyways, get as much ram as you can

 

[TUK101]

OK, I am not going to give you some broad answer like some of the other guys gave you. Windows XP should have at least 256 mb to work descent, and between 384 and 512 depending on what you do, and what type of gaming that you do to run optimally. If you do a lot of video editing, or graphically intensive work you might need more. For the most part though, shoot for 512mb of ram if you can swing it. And if you do decide on 512mb of ram, do it with one, and no more than two sticks if you plan to do much OC'ing. Windows XP I think physically does not have a real cap on the amount of ram that it can use. Windows 98 based OS had a cap of 512 that needed a registry hack to enable more to be used.

 

[oops]

What I know is once WinXP has above 768MB of RAM, the preformance will decrease. The 512MB is very good setting already, upgrade to 768MB will bring little effect.


http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showt...threadid=140404

 

[OC-Master]

Two sticks of 512MB is the only way to go now days. You can get by with 512MB but thats starting to cut it for heavy gaming or photoshoping.


OC-Master

 

[repo man11]

Maximum memory for XP= 4GB.
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/platform/server/PAE/PAEmem.asp
Edit: that's assuming that XP Home and Pro are the same on their memory usage.

 

[Namagomi]

Two sticks of 512MB is the only way to go now days. You can get by with 512MB but thats starting to cut it for heavy gaming or photoshoping.


OC-Master

word up to that! 1gig represent! You can never have too much ram or too much HD space, if ya ask me

 

[cullam3n]

word up to that! 1gig represent! You can never have too much ram or too much HD space, if ya ask me

Damn straight! I want to get 5 of thsoe 200GB drives and put them in RAID 0! Da shiznit!

-PC

 

[spazzkid]

u wud do good with 256mb, but 512mb wud be GREAT!

 

[Capt. Insano]

Yep, XP=4GB max RAM.

512MB is minimum, 768MB is probably optimal for the next 6-9 months of use.

 

[Johnny Knoxville]

word up to that! 1gig represent!

actually you can, having too much ram can slow down the system, i learned that when i had 384MB of SDRAM at the time when the average was 64MB

 

[elBogg]

Maximum memory for XP= 4GB.
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/platform/server/PAE/PAEmem.asp
Edit: that's assuming that XP Home and Pro are the same on their memory usage.

yah, but if you read that, i think they're saying that windows will only use up to 2 gigs for applications, so 2 are going to go wasted . . . can someone else check that link and see if i'm correct?

 

[elBogg]

The maximum amount of memory that can be supported on Windows XP Professional and Windows .NET Server is also 4 GB. However, Windows .NET Advanced Server supports 32 GB of physical RAM and Windows .NET Datacenter Server supports 64 GB of physical RAM using the PAE feature.

The virtual address space of processes and applications is still limited to 2 GB unless the /3GB switch is used in the Boot.ini file.



this is what it says . . . and apparently applications have to have "IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE" in the process header to use the third gig when you use the above switch. i assume that means you have to be using a program that actually supports that particular switch, right?

 

[masitti]

However, Windows .NET Advanced Server supports 32 GB of physical RAM and Windows .NET Datacenter Server supports 64 GB of physical RAM using the PAE feature.

That's freakin bigger than my hardrive! lol

Anyways, I am getting a gig of RAM soon for the nForce2 boards. I am tired of buying a little bit more RAM, and seeing a small increase. It just isn't worth it. If I buy a gig of this stuff, it's gonna last a year... and I won't have a slow pope computer.

 

[Henry Rollins II]

Anything less than gigabytes is for whimps

 

[Needitcooler]

Anything less than gigabytes is for whimps

LOL!! I agree fully, but to save anyone reading this thread some money, I will say that XP only needs 256 megs to function correctly. I had 256 for about 6 months, and everything ran as smooth as butter. I only recently decided to upgrade to 1 gig because less than 1 gig IS for wimps.

 

[Namagomi]

actually you can, having too much ram can slow down the system, i learned that when i had 384MB of SDRAM at the time when the average was 64MB

huh? what? too much ram? i can't hear you... all noise and no signal on this end.

 

[arkan]

ive used win xp on a machine that had 4 gigs of ram. it was hella slow. reason was the way xp managed the pagefile and what gets swapped out. if you dont change a few registry keys the page file grows exponentially to the size of ram installed. at 4 gigs of ram the pagefile on this machine had its own disk but it didnt help bc the machine was having to manipulate a multigigabyte file everytime it paged out or in from the pagefile. add to that the enormous amount of ram the machine used just to cache the filesystem and it adds up to being very inefficient