4gb with vista

Hi all if i put 4 gb of memory in my laptop do i have upgrade it to the 64
bit verison of Vista thanks alan W

"Alan Whimp" <> wrote in message
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> Hi all if i put 4 gb of memory in my laptop do i have upgrade it to the 64
> bit verison of Vista thanks alan W


No..

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"Alan Whimp" <> wrote in message
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> Hi all if i put 4 gb of memory in my laptop do i have upgrade it to the 64
> bit verison of Vista thanks alan W

No, you don't have to upgrade to x64. But if you do not you will not be
able to use all the memory. Which isn't so bad from a futures perspective
or if you later decide to use x64.

hi ,
Just wanna let you know that 32 Bit OS can support max 4 gb ,even if u add
extra ram your computer will not use , its opposite with 64 bit it can
support roughly more 100 GB of ram ....

Alan Whimp;691002 Wrote:
> Hi all if i put 4 gb of memory in my laptop do i have upgrade it to the
> 64
> bit verison of Vista thanks alan W

You won't need to upgrade to Vista x64. Although you may be restricted
to betwen 3.0GB and 3.5GB by hardware that has mapped their own memory
to the upper 4GB.


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"Vinny" <Vinny @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> hi ,
> Just wanna let you know that 32 Bit OS can support max 4 gb ,

No. It will SEE 4GB but won't USE 4GB....there is a difference

Exact figures, Vinny!

Memory specifications
All editions of Windows Vista 64-bit provide increased memory support beyond
the standard 4 gigabytes (GB) available with 32-bit editions. Refer to the
specific edition of Windows Vista 64-bit to determine maximum memory capacity.

Windows Vista Edition 64-bit memory support

Home Basic
8 GB

Home Premium
16 GB

Ultimate
128+ GB

Business
128+ GB

Enterprise
128+ GB


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"Vinny" wrote:

> hi ,
> Just wanna let you know that 32 Bit OS can support max 4 gb ,even if u add
> extra ram your computer will not use , its opposite with 64 bit it can
> support roughly more 100 GB of ram ....

"Alan Whimp" <> wrote in message
news:5CB29141-9C64-4E9B-9865-...
> Hi all if i put 4 gb of memory in my laptop do i have upgrade it to the 64
> bit verison of Vista thanks alan W

If you want to actually USE all 4 GB, then yes you need a 64 bit version of
Vista. Vista 32 bit will work with 4 GB, but only USE between 3 and 3.5
GB, depending on your hardware, video card, etc.

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:38:23 -0400, "Bob Campbell" <>
wrote:

>"Alan Whimp" <> wrote in message
>news:5CB29141-9C64-4E9B-9865-...
>> Hi all if i put 4 gb of memory in my laptop do i have upgrade it to the 64
>> bit verison of Vista thanks alan W
>
>If you want to actually USE all 4 GB, then yes you need a 64 bit version of
>Vista. Vista 32 bit will work with 4 GB, but only USE between 3 and 3.5
>GB, depending on your hardware, video card, etc.

sort of....Vista, and XP too for that matter, will see up to the max
but not all of it is available for the OS. Beyond 3 to 3.5 gig is
available to software but not to the OS. Software being what is loaded
after the OS finishes loading, Word, Outlook, Quicken, Roxio, Nero,
etc are examples of software. Vista reports was it can use, not what
it 'sees'. Confusing for us users, not a standard way of doing things,
but what else is new. A meg is 1024 bytes, you by a 160 gig hard drive
and it formats out to 145 gig or so. Another way for computer makers
to confuse the issue. AMD makes chips that are slower than Intel but
then names then like Intel chips except with the + behind it. Like AMD
X2 5600+, it is supposed to be as fast as an Intel 5600 cpu but only
runs at 2.8ghz!

"f/fgeorge" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:38:23 -0400, "Bob Campbell" <>
> wrote:
>
>>"Alan Whimp" <> wrote in message
>>news:5CB29141-9C64-4E9B-9865-...
>>> Hi all if i put 4 gb of memory in my laptop do i have upgrade it to the
>>> 64
>>> bit verison of Vista thanks alan W
>>
>>If you want to actually USE all 4 GB, then yes you need a 64 bit version
>>of
>>Vista. Vista 32 bit will work with 4 GB, but only USE between 3 and 3.5
>>GB, depending on your hardware, video card, etc.
>
> sort of....Vista, and XP too for that matter, will see up to the max
> but not all of it is available for the OS. Beyond 3 to 3.5 gig is
> available to software but not to the OS.

No, it isn't. If the OS can't use it how can "software" use it? The OS is
"software" also. "Software" requests memory from the OS. How can the OS
grant access to memory that the OS can't allocate from?

Vista 32 allows about 3.2 GB (more or less, depending on your hardware) to
be used. Period. No software can use any more than that. Period.