Max amount of RAM you can put in one PC?

[rc5]

I saw PC motherboard supporting 4 ram slots up to 512MB per slot. That's 2GB ram in total. Is that the highest amount you can put inside one pc nowaday?

 

[PrinceofWands]

I've seen boards with 4 or even 6 GB's.

 

[Electrode]

nevermind

 

[Cooltech2k]

Dpends on the Motherboard....

 

[XeonTux]

Mine takes 2GB, have 1GB and two slots open for expansion

The Tyan board in my Flaming P3 Duallies thread in hot deals can take more, has 8 DIMM slots!

 

[Elledan]

Maximum addressable amount of memory with an x86 (32-bits) architecture is 4 GB.

x86-64 (e.g., Clawhammer, Sledgehammer) CPUs are capable of addressing much larger amounts of memory.

 

[yakko]

It will also depend on the OS. With Win 9x over 512 can be a problem but with XP and 2K you can do up to 4 gb.

 

[charrison]

Elledan,


Incorrect, but thanks for playing. X86 allows for 36bit(64gig) memory(pentium pro and better) addressing. However applications are only allowed to access it in 4 gig pages. Only high end server chipsets would recognize more than 4 gig.

 

[Elledan]

<< Elledan,


Incorrect, but thanks for playing. X86 allows for 36bit(64gig) memory(pentium pro and better) addressing. However applications are only allowed to access it in 4 gig pages. Only high end server chipsets would recognize more than 4 gig. >>

Eh? I'm confused...you're the first person to state that an x86 CPU can address more than 4 GB. I've always heard that the limit is 4 GB.

 

[tweakmm]

<<

<< Elledan,


Incorrect, but thanks for playing. X86 allows for 36bit(64gig) memory(pentium pro and better) addressing. However applications are only allowed to access it in 4 gig pages. Only high end server chipsets would recognize more than 4 gig. >>

Eh? I'm confused...you're the first person to state that an x86 CPU can address more than 4 GB. I've always heard that the limit is 4 GB. >>


as have I

 

[Angrymarshmello]

http://www.intel.com/intel/intelis/museum/exhibit/hist_micro/hof/tspecs.htm

charrison is right

 

[StageLeft]

Some current Mobos (low-end ones) won't take more than 512!

 

[Jerboy]

It depends on chipset support, motherboard support, operating system support and architectual limit.

this one does 32GB memory