New 32GB of Ram is sweet / Win 7 Home Premium OMG & WTF:

Diuz · 14 May 2015 at 00:03

Sup guys,

So I just bought some super awesome new Corsair Vengeance Pro Silver 32GB Kit

I also have Win 7 Home Premium...

Can anyone guess the issue here.... Man oh man 'you learn something new every day...'

D

stulid · 14 May 2015 at 00:14

32bit?

spoffle · 14 May 2015 at 00:15

Home Premium is arbitrarily limited to 16GB isn't it?

stulid · 14 May 2015 at 00:17

Yes 16Gb for 64bit.

ADT · 14 May 2015 at 00:52

You can always use Windows 8.1 evaluation until 10 comes out. Then you can use the 7's licence to upgrade to 10 for free.

Not sure about the limitation of the evaluation version though

Diuz · 14 May 2015 at 08:44

spoffle said:
Home Premium is arbitrarily limited to 16GB isn't it?

Ding-Ding-Ding We Haz A Winner...

Will just wait for Win 10 and be happy ive already taken care of my Ram. Even if my crappy OS has a 16gb cap.

Lolz what a joke...

D,

bledd · 14 May 2015 at 13:32

What are you using it for?

Not many users need more than 8 as a very healthy max.

gjc10212 · 14 May 2015 at 14:09

bledd. said:
What are you using it for?

Not many users need more than 8 as a very healthy max.

Aside - My (now sold) late 2013 MBP using Chrome and scrolling through FB would eat 6gb of ram....not sure why.

Hotwired · 15 May 2015 at 02:16

gjc10212 said:
Aside - My (now sold) late 2013 MBP using Chrome and scrolling through FB would eat 6gb of ram....not sure why.

The solution for that definitely wasn't to get more RAM

mothermachine · 15 May 2015 at 11:22

Yes I learned this the hard way too. I upgraded my main workstation at work from 12GB to 24GB then discovered this artificial limit... I was forced to upgrade that machine and all my rendernodes to Windows 8.1 as a result. It was cheaper to do it that way and at least they're all now future-proofed and the upgrade path to Win 10 should be simpler. I now run 24GB in that machine, 24GB in each of my nodes and 64GB in my new main workstation.

IceWind · 15 May 2015 at 15:59

Ultimate wasnt limited though was it ? I remember having 24gig of ram in 7 and it worked fine but I do think I was using Ultimate.

David Bisset · 15 May 2015 at 19:16

pro, enterprise & ultimate were all 192GB, just starter, home basic & premium had lower limits (8, 8, 16 respectively assuming 64-bit version)

I doubt all that many people that need more than 16GB would have gone for below pro given it was limited in other ways too like some of the networking stuff.

Win 8 has variable limits too - but given the lowest one is 128GB it's not too bad

(ignoring RT which is 4GB as always 32 bit)

TheVoice · 15 May 2015 at 19:36

If you didn't already know this it probably means you don't need 32GB of RAM in the first place!

Rroff · 15 May 2015 at 19:43

It is easy to forget to be fair, you kind of expect a bit higher than 16GB out of "home premium".

TheVoice · 16 May 2015 at 09:53

But when is your average home user realistically going to need more than 16GB of RAM?

OspreyO · 16 May 2015 at 12:22

Out of curiosity. What are you doing that you need so much RAM. I though gaming doesn't really need more than 8GB.

At work we use Visual Studio and MS SQL and it really struggles on 4GB. Especially if you have a bunch of other applications and browsers open.