how many gigs will 64 bit 7 take?

[old82]

192 gigs http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...8VS.85%29.aspx


thing will be using solid state drive for ram?

[zetachi]

depends which version and also more so on what you MB will support.

Is this a question or what?

[nabokovfan87]

mb's top out at 16 gb, at least for amd. Add 2 gb for the video card, more if you crossfire. 192 gb is far off, hell, so is 50.

[JSLEnterprises]

a full typical install of windows 7 ultimate x64 and all updates afterwards, will sit at around 30GB total (though the rollbacks can be cleaned out and hibernate can be disabled, so total space used will drop down to ~28GB)

[old82]

yeah, but pro and up take 192 gigs! imagine what you could do with that!

[Jito463]

yeah, but pro and up take 192 gigs! imagine what you could do with that!

At present? Not much, if anything at all (unless you're running a server). It's future-proofing, nothing more. Back when 32-bit was introduced, with its (theoretical) 4GB cap, there was nothing out to take advantage of that much RAM, then. And similarly, there's nothing out that could take advantage of 192GB of RAM (speaking for desktops, not servers).

[curlysir]

yeah, but pro and up take 192 gigs! imagine what you could do with that!

I can't really figure out what to do with the 8GB I have now. Not much difference between the 8 and 4 as far as I can tell with current technology.

[Windrunner]

I'd get some really fast RAM and a solid state disk and have a RAMdrive that dumped to the disk at shutdown and loaded back up at startup.

[Poci]

Low latency high speed ram yes.

Do does DDR3 speeds have a limit on phenom IIs with 4 ram modules like previous AMD cpus did?

[TheGlasMan]

Low latency high speed ram yes.

Do does DDR3 speeds have a limit on phenom IIs with 4 ram modules like previous AMD cpus did?

Same as intel has now that they have integrated controllers.

Historically the AMD ones were default settings and normally could be bypassed with bios setting

The processor (intel and AMD) limit is 8GB/Channel, it doesn't matter about the OS. It took 15 years for 32 bit to become "restrictive". It will take as long minimum to get memory cheap enough, and memory controllers robustenough to approach the 192 GB 64 bit supplies. Hard drive and graphics cards (onboard often uses system memory reducing what is available to the cpu) memory have nothing to do with sytem memory. When the hard drive is read the data is given a system memory address and location so the cpu can see it. Same with GPU.