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Available ram in win 7 and win 8

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I'm sure this has been answered elsewhere but I didn't see it...

I learned that hard way that win7 home premium is not the way to go when you have 32gb of ram. As everyone is aware by now, win7 home only lets you have access to 16gb even though it knows you have 32gb installed. Gotta love those artificial limits....
Anyway, as I was going over the win8 specs I noticed that the limits for ram in win 8 are 128gb...



2 things:

1. Am I reading this wrong or not looked deep enough for the rest of the answer
2. Is it as simple as upgrading to win8 to magically get access to the rest of the 32gb of ram?

Thank you.

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I don't think you're reading it wrong, as it is a page at microsoft.com itself which is very clearly stated. Either upgrading to Windows 8 or to a higher version of 7 (e.g., Professional) would let you use all your RAM. BTW, what are you doing that requires so much memory?
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