3gb too much?

[Apokalipse]

if you are running a 32-bit OS, your limit is:
2 ^ 32 = 4294967296 possible addresses (1 address = 1 byte of data)
4294967296 bytes = 4 GB

if you are running a 64-bit Os, your limit is:
2 ^ 64 = 18446744073709551616 addresses
18446744073709551616 bytes =
17179869184 GB
or 16 Petabytes

 

[TheMajor]

You would have to check 3 things. The motherboard limit, the CPU limit and the OS limit.

Regular desktop motherboards only go up to 3, 4 or 8GB of RAM. The 32bit CPU's go up to 64GB using 36bit addressing method, I believe, but not entirely sure.

 

[buyxgmistake]

"besides, with 3gb you won't be able to run in dual channel which will decrease performance also"

Why can't you run 2x512mb and 2x1gb in dual channel with 4 slots

 

[molsen]

many motherboards won't run in dual-channel like that... a.k.a. dual dual channel lol. check your manual or do some googling to find out for sure.

...just trying to bring up all the possible scenarios

 

[icemakr]

My bios shows that my ram is running "dual channel interleaved" and I have 3Gb in the configuration he's asking about.
Slot 1: 1Gb
Slot 2: 512Mb
Slot 3: 1Gb
Slot 4: 512Mb

 

[curtcheese64]

The G5 Quad supports up to 16GB of RAM, it will cost you $7100 for non ECC and $10300 for ECC, and thats just the cost of the RAM.

 

[FghtinIrshNvrDi]

Some motherboards are picky about what ram they take and allow dual-channel operation. My MSI K8N Neo4-F starts downclocking stuff when you get 4 sticks of 2-sided memory in them.

Ryan

 

[molsen]

thats nice.

buyxgmistake, make sure to check your mobo manual for this

 

[infiltrator7]

ok, so could i just buy another gig of ram (2X512s) and then have 4 512s all doing dual channel?

heres my mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813188002

 

[buyxgmistake]

useful info....thanks. As long as were on the subject , I run 2x1gb ram and when I put them in slots 1 and 3 (wich is what everyone tells me to put them in) it runs in single and if I put them in slots 1 an 2 it says its running in dual. CPUz is what I am looking at to see if its in dual or single. sort of goes against what I have been told but I leave them in 1 and 2 so cpuz says dual. any opinions on this?