Coming from XP, I was under the understanding that the more memory your system had the faster it would run until someone showed me the light and told me that XP was only capable of working well with 2GB of Ram... 3GB if you know what you're doing and could tweak something.

Later I learn that Vista needed 4GB to run and since I now have 4GB's and it feels like Vista is very stable and perhpas slightly faster than my XP, I think that people were correct.

Being said that, I have heard people getting into having 8GB's or even more and since DDR2 memory is at its lowest I was thinking on jumping on that band wagon but then, it hit me... what if Vista is only capable of using 4GB and the rest would just be a waste or even worse, it could very well hinder the OS performance?

What is the scoop? If my motherboard is capable of accepting say 8GB's of Ram, would I be helping my Vista x64 OS by adding 4 more GB's to it or would I just be wasting my money? Also, seeing as to I also dual boot with XP, would my XP OS suffer from that as well?

I know someone will ask if I really need all that Memory and the answer would be, I don't really know, all I know is that I want to game as smooth as possible and if adding more memory will help me do that w/o having to overclock my CPU or GPU... I am all for it, aside from the fact that I also want to know whether Vista is capable of accepting more than 4GB and still use it at its maximum.

But it will take no less than 128 GB of RAM in order to satiate x64 Vista Business, Enterprise and Ultimate.

Hmmm, I find this a little hard to swallow!

Even at the cheap prices we have seen the DDR2's go for, who can afford 128 GB of Ram and what Mobo supports this for the regular and casual home user?

If that is the case, I have to go rob a bank... see you later!

Stick with 4GB and you should be okay. If you have apps that use a lot of RAM, then upgrade to 8GB. It should not hinder x64 OS performance at all.

Originally Posted by AstaLaVista

I know someone will ask if I really need all that Memory and the answer would be, I don't really know, all I know is that I want to game as smooth as possible and if adding more memory will help me do that w/o having to overclock my CPU or GPU... I am all for it, aside from the fact that I also want to know whether Vista is capable of accepting more than 4GB and still use it at its maximum.

Yes.

Originally Posted by HexManiac

Originally Posted by AstaLaVista

I know someone will ask if I really need all that Memory and the answer would be, I don't really know, all I know is that I want to game as smooth as possible and if adding more memory will help me do that w/o having to overclock my CPU or GPU... I am all for it, aside from the fact that I also want to know whether Vista is capable of accepting more than 4GB and still use it at its maximum.

Yes.

129 processes Damn.

Originally Posted by AstaLaVista

But it will take no less than 128 GB of RAM in order to satiate x64 Vista Business, Enterprise and Ultimate.

Hmmm, I find this a little hard to swallow!

Even at the cheap prices we have seen the DDR2's go for, who can afford 128 GB of Ram and what Mobo supports this for the regular and casual home user?

If that is the case, I have to go rob a bank... see you later!

MOST applications and games that the everyday user would use, will not be able to make use of more than 4 Gigs.

I run 4 Gigs with a Quad Core processor and have never had a bottle necking issue when it involves memory.

If your big into 3D graphics rendering, AutoCAD, or running a web server or the like, then it becomes important to have more than 4Gb.

If your running Crysis, COD4, Word, Firefox, Blu-Ray watching, etc, you really won't need more than 4Gb. At least under Vista. New applications or new OS's may change this but for now 4 is plenty.

Originally Posted by acdcfan

Originally Posted by HexManiac

Originally Posted by AstaLaVista

I know someone will ask if I really need all that Memory and the answer would be, I don't really know, all I know is that I want to game as smooth as possible and if adding more memory will help me do that w/o having to overclock my CPU or GPU... I am all for it, aside from the fact that I also want to know whether Vista is capable of accepting more than 4GB and still use it at its maximum.

Yes.

woot...... 129 processes
what are you running........server?

I was running 3 virtual machines through VMWare Workstation (all using 1GB), SQL Server 2005 Management studio, VS 2005, InstallShield 2008 and a couple of XML and hex editors and burning a backup DVD. I had a couple of Word docs and an Excel spreadsheet open as well. And the Vista forums up as well. I was taking a break .