Maximum amount of memory?

[Chronicle]

Hi
What is the maximum amount of memory?

At the moment i have a 64bit cpu, running a 32bit version of vista. What is the max i can get?

 

[keogh]

Depends on your mobo, the board can only support a certain amount of GB's! Check ya mobo manual, should tell you in there.

 

[Chronicle]

Its an abit av8... will have a search. I thought there was just a set limit.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

The maximum theoretical memory address space in a 64-bit system is 2^64 addresses, equivalent to 17,179,869,184 gibibytes or 16 exbibytes of RAM.

In reality it depends on your motherboard/memory controller. Newer consumer mobos seem to lie in the 16 GiB range.

EDIT: The Abit AV8 maxes out at 4 GiB RAM.

 

[Yellowbeard]

The board will run 4gb. However, regardless of your CPU, the OS is 32bit. In a nutshell, with 4gb of memory installed, your OS will allow the system to assign approximately 2.6gb - 3.2gb for use by applications.

To "fully" utilize 4gb+ of memory, you need a CPU, MOBO (chipset) and OS that will allow you to use it all. Any weak link in the chain will cause you to be able to use less than 4gb.