Maybe you were taken in by poor advice. Vista Home Premium can't use more
than 4Gb of RAM.
http://www.practicalpc.co.uk/computi...bit-memory.htm
"Bozsvfr" <Bozsvfr@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:FB2930D3-2C43-44A0-A732-AAA93B7C3AB5@xxxxxx
Quote:
> Hi Dwarf
>
> I've Vista Home Prem. I had 4Gb ram in, ASUS board, Nvidia 8800GT, and a
> Quad 2.4Mhz CPU. Score of 5.2
> However, after reading your post, I purchased a further 4Gb of RAM
> (Exactley
> same cas etc & make) and after updating the index, it returned a score
> of.......5.3!
> Vista recognises only 4Gb of RAM, (the Board however reports 8.04Gb RAM)
> I've updated ALL drivers including Vista. Please, if you have any
> suggestions
> for me I would be very grateful!
>
> Bozsvfr
>
> "Dwarf" wrote:
> Quote:
>> Hi Mike,
>>
>> In addition to Mike Hall's post, you might be better off upgrading to 8GB
>> rather than 6GB thereby ensuring that ALL memory modules are identical in
>> size as well as speed.
>> Dwarf
>>
>