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How can we extend 4gb ram limit to 8gb in win7 32bit

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venkatesh_99 said:
Hello,
the mother board used is DH61WW which supports 8gb ram ,but we have purchased win7 32 bit . Now we have to access 8gb of ram,is their any means to access 8gb of ram,


Hi :) 

Basically the answer is no unless you wipe the drive and install Win7 64 bit....

All the best Brett :) 

In short, not without faffing.

There are products out there such as RAMdisk which will allow you to utilize the extra memory and there are some pieces of software which will unlock it.

To be perfectly honest.....just get yourself the 64bit version and it will be easier, less stressful and actually will run better than any bodge job out there.
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signor said:
In short, not without faffing.

There are products out there such as RAMdisk which will allow you to utilize the extra memory and there are some pieces of software which will unlock it.

To be perfectly honest.....just get yourself the 64bit version and it will be easier, less stressful and actually will run better than any bodge job out there.



Hi :) 

Sorry but you are wrong.... 4 gb is an absolute limit in 32 bit software...NO programs can release more memory, they might say they do but they cannot....

All the best Brett :) 
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Brett928S2 said:
Hi :) 

Sorry but you are wrong.... 4 gb is an absolute limit in 32 bit software...NO programs can release more memory, they might say they do but they cannot....

All the best Brett :) 

Actually, Brett, you are wrong. 32-bit Operating Systems can access more than 4GB of memory by using PAE, so it's not an absolute limit; the limitation is that no individual application can access more than 4GB. I'm not sure what applications there may be that allow Windows to use PAE but other OSs, such as Linux, do so.

But, as others have said, the most sensible solution is to use 64-bit Windows.
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You can enable PAE to allow up to 64GB of RAM to be used by the system at one point in time, but the 2GB Address Space limit for a single application remains in effect [the upper 2GB remains reserved].

Easiest solution is to simply move to Win64.

Brett928S2 said:
signor said:
In short, not without faffing.

There are products out there such as RAMdisk which will allow you to utilize the extra memory and there are some pieces of software which will unlock it.

To be perfectly honest.....just get yourself the 64bit version and it will be easier, less stressful and actually will run better than any bodge job out there.


Actually this is wrong ...... Depending on the Proccessor ,Physical Address Extentison(PAE) Can be accessed giving windows the ability to access more than 4. Again its only if your proccessor Supports it. So do your research. How ever this doesnt mean you can install 64bit versions on a 32bit version of windows. That is not somthing you can do.

Hi :) 

Sorry but you are wrong.... 4 gb is an absolute limit in 32 bit software...NO programs can release more memory, they might say they do but they cannot....

All the best Brett :) 


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