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wiggy1

12-14-2009, 10:35 PM

Is anybody using Windows 7 32-bit and running 4GB in their machine? I just read on the MSDN website that the 32-bit version of Windows 7 will support up to 4 GB RAM, but I am concerned that it will suffer from the same issues where the only ammount of memory available is about 3.1GB due to addressing limitations.

Thoughts?

Thanks

ruirib

12-15-2009, 04:02 AM

Yes, that is true. You won't have more than 3 something GB of usable memory in 32 bit versions of Windows. To use the whole available memory, you will need to upgrade to a 64 bit version.