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Old 05-30-2007   #8 (permalink)
Ken Blake, MVP


 
 

Re: Does vista support 4gb or not

On Wed, 30 May 2007 18:51:29 +0100, "Haydon" <me@privacy.net> wrote:

>Lets try again without spell-check defaulting to change!
>
>Hello Ken
>
>As you mentioned, 1GB is used for hardware. You also mentioned that
>installing more than 3GB of RAM is a waste of money.
>
>So, the question is, are there any benefits for Windows allocating 1GB of
>RAM for hardware? If not, why does it do it?




No it doesn't allocate any RAM at all. It uses about 1GB of the
available 4GB address space. So the address space just isn't there for
more than about 3GB to use.

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