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RAM and Vista

Trigga187Trigga187 EnglandRegistered User new member
edited August 2008 in Games and Technology
Hi,

I bought a new pc recently, but as i didnt have a massive amount of money i had to make some sacrifices. In order to get a better graphics card i got a pc with 3 gb of cheap RAM, i would now like to increase this to 4gb of good quality RAM.

I know very little about Windows Vista and just wanted to know if i can switch the RAM easily without Vista having some kinda fit about it?

Oderint dum metuant
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  • DehumanizedDehumanized Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    If you are using x86 vista, you'll see basically no gains from moving to 4gb of ram from 3gb. There is a technical limitation in x86 systems that limits them to a total of 4gb of addressable memory, from which ALL system memory (video memory, cache, etc... basically RAM is last in the list) is competing for addresses from.

    There might be certain types and configurations of memory that you will see performance gains from (notably if you reconfigure to ensure that your memory is properly dual channel'd, but likely you won't see much in terms of gains.

    And no, Vista will not throw any fits due to RAM changes, unless you put in bad RAM or RAM that isn't supported by your motherboard.

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  • Trigga187Trigga187 EnglandRegistered User new member
    edited August 2008
    ok thanks very much for the reply,
    I'll probably leave it for a while then, everything i use at the moment works well so ill keep to the maxim 'if it aint broke dont fix it' :)

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