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    Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit 4GB Ram

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by suprafly, May 31, 2008.

  1. suprafly

    suprafly Notebook Enthusiast

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    Does anyone know :rolleyes: if Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit support 4GB Ram? Would the gateway p-6831FX support 4GB RAM on Vista Home Premium 32-bit edition?
     
    suprafly, May 31, 2008
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    Like any other 32-bit OS, 4 GB of physical RAM will yield 3.0-3.5 usable RAM.
     
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    Not if you enable PAE - it will access the full 4GB then. PAE does reduce performance though so it's kind of defeating the object.
     
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    Either get 64bit OS, or keep the system stock with 3. :D
     
    Papi4baby, May 31, 2008
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    ok if you have 4g on vista 32 it will show only 3g or sometimes like 3.2 and will only use 3g of it
    if you update to vista sp1 it will show all 4g and will only use 3g

    idk if it is worth buying 2g(since its 1g + 2g on 6831) of ram and then buying a 64bit unless you get it from gateway for free
     
    predatorramboxxx, Jun 1, 2008
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  6. suprafly

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    I just install OCZ OCZ2MV6672G in my p-6831fx and it register as 4gb ram in vista home 32-bit. CPU-Z also see 4gb of ram.
     
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    yeah it will show up and register it but will only use 3gig of it.
     
    predatorramboxxx, Jun 1, 2008
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    so what's a problem using 3 instead of 4
    its not a big deal
    games cant use 4 gigs of ran but there are not many application that can use 4 GB of ram except 3d softwares and image editing, audio editing softwares and i don't thing we are going to use them at full capacity.
     
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    Even with PAE enabled under Vista 32, the OS can't use all 4GB because the BIOS doesn't expose the memory hole remap option that the Phoenix does support. Maybe in a future upgrade, Gateway will expose that option or maybe someone will introduce a modified BIOS to expose it.
     
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    Oh ok i guess I will switch to 64 bit vista version to get access to 4gb ram
    i don't think there really a need for 4gb ram but since prices are droping on memory why not just upgrade to the fullest. :)
     
    suprafly, Jun 1, 2008
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