will Windows Vista allow more than 4gb of RAM?

[Dimkaumd]

Hi all,

As far as I understand, right now, users of windows cannot have more than 4gb of ram due to FAT32 restrictions. Anyone know the limit Vista64bit will have in terms of RAM?

Does anyone know the practical difference that vista 64bit will have over 32bit? Any application advantage etc?

Finally, Ive been reading about Windows Readyboost, and it seems really awesome,(plug in ur USB flash, and it acts as RAM) will it significantly speed up my computer if I have 2gb of RAM right now?
And can I download Readyboost to my XP Home Edition computer??

Thanks guys.

 

[n0cmonkey]

There's a thread about this in the software forum, check it out.

 

[Nothinman]

As far as I understand, right now, users of windows cannot have more than 4gb of ram due to FAT32 restrictions.

You can't have files bigger than 4G on a FAT volume, but you can most definitely have them on NTFS volumes. And if you have a Server version of Windows you can use PAE to use more than 4G of memory, but the two aren't related in any way.

Anyone know the limit Vista64bit will have in terms of RAM?

Physically? The line on the limits will be drawn wherever MS wants to put them, you should probably look on MS' product site.

Does anyone know the practical difference that vista 64bit will have over 32bit? Any application advantage etc?

The practical difference is that 32-bit apps will be more work to get working because you need 32-bit versions of all of the libraries that each executable depends on.