Win7 32bit Only Supports 3.xx Ram?

Post by **Dangerous Bob** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 9:21 am

I've googled about a bit on this and read about a PAE patch. But opinions vary about it's usefulness.

Or should I upgrade to win7 64 bit?

Vista used more RAM tbh....

Post by **Trig** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 9:33 am

Post by **Hammer** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 9:38 am

Home Premium 64 can use a max of 16g ram
Pro 64 can use a max of 192g ram

Post by **Vomit** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 9:53 am

Would go 64 bit m8, Not as many issues as their were a few years ago.

If you have a spare drive kicking about you could always run it for a month without activating or adding
your serial number on that drive just be sure.

Post by **Nellyboy** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 10:54 am

Computers never been so cheap apart from hdd's. Get 64bit mate, much smoother with 8gb than 32bit gash.

Post by **Claw** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 11:20 am

Past concerns about going 64 bit was all to do with XP. There was very little support for it in the form of drivers, etc. Also, XP's memory management wasn't that great with the more memory you had. W7 loves 64 bit, though not as much as Linux loves it.

Let's not talk about Vista... it's kinda like that Uncle you never bring into family conversation...

The next issue for W7 is large file transfers. RAM and the demands on RAM is getting bigger, internal storage is getting bigger, external storage is getting bigger, but W7 can struggle with large file transfers.

Post by **Dangerous Bob** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 11:35 am

OK next Q, will 32bit update to 64 easily or is it another reinstall....

And er.... /pleads: Triiiggg.....?
sorry mateyo

Post by **Trig** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 12:11 pm

Always a fresh reinstall bobs..

And while 7 pre might support lots of gigagiblets most desktop chipsets will max out at 16GB.

Best bet these days is 8gb on win 7x64