Vista SP1 Installed System Memory RAM
One of the aspects that Service Pack 1 changes for Windows Vista is the way that the operating system reports the amount of installed system memory.
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13.6.2008 Check for RAM Error or Defect in Windows 7 and Vista with Windows Memory Diagnostic
Memory or RAM is one of the most important electronic hardware component on a computer systems, not only in term of speed or clock frequency and size, but also the reliability of hardware ecosystem of the RAM sticks or memory modules and its subsystem.
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1.10.2009 The Vista RAM puzzle: Is 2GB enough?
A couple weeks ago, my buddy Dwight Silverman asked whether he should be tempted by low, low prices to bump the RAM in his Windows Vista machine from 2GB to 4GB.
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13.8.2007 See Windows Vista Run with 0 (Zero) RAM
That's right! Windows Vista can run using a total of zero system memory. Well, bear with me, it will all make sense in the end.
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5.10.2007 OS X versus Vista, RAM division
As I noted earlier this week, I’ve begun using a MacBook (the basic white model) and keeping a log of my experiences.
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26.10.2008 Vista RTM tells a RAM graphic tale
WE GOT out hands on Vista RTM and we have a few key points to share with you. First of all, Half Life 2 episode one works great on the Radeon X1950XTX. We wanted to give it a try with G80, EVGA Geforce 8800 GTX but we still don't have any drivers for this card.
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18.11.2006 Crack Available to Install Windows Vista with Only 256MB RAM
Want to perform the impossible with Windows Vista and install the operating system on systems with only 256 MB of RAM? vista_nomem.exe is a patch that promises to deliver just that, enabling you to deploy Vista even if you only have 256 MB of memory.
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8.2.2007 256 MB RAM Windows Vista Crack
Want to perform the impossible with Windows Vista and install the operating system on systems with only 256 MB of RAM?
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8.2.2007 32-bit Windows Vista Eats Up RAM
Windows Vista is a system resource hog. There is little doubt as to that. But to go from there to Windows Vista actually eating up RAM... Well, in fact you shouldn't blame Windows Vista for
missing RAM in a certain scenario.
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17.3.2007 Vista SP1 Won't Resolve the 4 GB RAM Limitation of 32-bit Windows Vista
32-bit Windows operating systems, and Windows Vista makes no exception whatsoever to this rule, are limited in terms of the amount of system memory that can be addressed to no more than 4 GB.
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4.1.2008 Update: Re-Testing Vista w/2GB RAM, Office 2003
Many of our members have requested that we re-test Vista SP1 with 2GB of RAM instead of the 1GB we used in our original tests.
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28.11.2007 How Much Memory Does Vista Need?
With Windows Vista coming soon to a retail channel near you, one of the important questions to ask is, "How much memory does it really need?" There are the official minimum requirements of 512 MB, but we all know that minimum requirements don't translate to a great experience.
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23.1.2007 Windows 7 Drives RAM Ccapacity Explosion; Vista SP2 Usage Rising
Windows 7 will drive the average PC RAM capacity to 4GB in the next 18 months. That's the conclusion of researchers at the exo.performance.network who are monitoring the ramp-up to Windows 7's launch on October 22.
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23.9.2009 Vista “Out of Memory” errors
You just can’t seem to throw enough memory at Vista. There have been a number of issues that Vista users have reported relating to copying and moving data, especially large numbers of files.
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17.10.2007 Minimum System Requirements? Just Feed 8 GB (!) of RAM into Vista SP1 and then Watch it Fly
Want to talk performance in a comparison between Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3?
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1.12.2007 Mythbusting Windows Vista - Memory Management
Windows Vista is well on it's way and everyday more and more information is released. A lot of this information is misunderstood, regurgitated and out of the ashes many a myth has risen on Vista. I'd like to welcome a special guest author, Ned Gnitchel, who will be presenting a number of articles over the next little while debunking some of these myths. Ned works for a large software company and is a specialist in OS Internals, Directory Services and Collaboration.
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13.3.2006 Resolve Windows Vista Out of Memory Errors
Windows Vista "out of memory" errors are intimately connected with the way the operating system manages virtual address space.
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29.8.2007 Windows Vista Memory Tweak Guide
With every release of a new operating system come new demands and Windows Vista is by large no exception to this rule.
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23.10.2007 MEMORyAL 4.3 - Unleash Your RAM
MEMORyAL 4.3 is a Indicator control system resources and memory speed.
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4.1.2009 Analysis: Vista's Ready Boost is no match for RAM
There's a new way to enhance your cache in Vista - simply plug in your Flash memory stick. But how much performance gain can you really expect? TG Daily ran an average PC through a benchmark parcours and discovered that the old rules still apply: There is no substitute for an adequate amount of system memory. Period.
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13.2.2007 Windows 7 - Maximum Supported RAM is 192 GB
Windows 7 will take the maximum amount of supported system memory well beyond the limits of Windows Vista.
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27.4.2009 Windows 7 Non-Uniform Memory Access Architectures
Windows 7 will be able to take advantage not only of faster CPUs, but of multiple processors on a single chip. The 64-bit edition of the operating system in particular will be able to support over 64 Logical Processors per machine.
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28.12.2008 Minimem - Optimizing Windows Memory Usage
Running too many applications can cause computer performance to slow down or even crashed.
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24.8.2009 Release Unused Memory with VC RamCleaner
One of the main factors that causes computer performance slowness could be due to memory leak whereby memory is not being released properly after it was used.
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13.10.2009 Kernel Memory Space Analyzer Version 8.1 and guide
Microsoft Support Professionals Toolkit for Windows. The Kernel Memory Space Analyzer is a tool to help expert debugging engineers analyze Windows crash dump files.
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31.8.2006 Samsung develops new graphics memory speed limit
Samsung is getting ready to produce extremely fast memory chips to be used on future graphics cards.
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25.2.2007 Xbox Gets Bigger Live Games, Memory Card
Microsoft plans to allow Xbox Live Arcade games to use more space, announcing it had increased the official size limit from 50 to 150 megabytes. In addition, the company also announced a larger memory card with a capacity of 512MB.
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5.3.2007 Intel moves closer to flash memory replacement
Intel has been tinkering with a concept of a phase change memory device chip for nearly 30 years.
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18.4.2007 eBoostr - Boost Windows XP with Flash Memory
MDO Ltd. announces the release of eBoostr, a complete replacement for Microsoft ReadyBoost technology for Windows XP. Upgrade the performance of your PC without upgrading its components. Get ReadyBoost-like technology in Windows XP.
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14.11.2007 Free Microsoft Windows Memory Diagnostic Utility
Windows Memory Diagnostic is a free utility available for download from Microsoft designed to sniff out flaws in a machine's RAM modules.
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28.8.2008Windows Machines with More than 4 GB of RAM Have Limited Shut-Down Options
Windows Vista computers that come equipped with more than 4 GB of system memory have limited shut-down options. Essentially, the Hibernate option is
no longer available on Vista machines that feature in excess of 4 GB of RAM. This scenario affects both the 32-bit and the 64-bit editions of Vista,
but at the same time also Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Microsoft has confirmed that the issue is related to the large quantity of random access
memory.
"This issue occurs because hibernation is disabled on computers that
have more than 4 GB of RAM. Hibernation
requires sufficient disk space to contain the contents of the computer's memory. Performance is poor on a computer that has more than 4 GB of memory
and that has support for hibernation. Therefore, Microsoft has disabled support for hibernation on such computers," the Redmond company
revealed.
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18.03.2008You Want 4 GB RAM on Your Notebook?
The question of how much RAM you really need is discussed roughly once every two years, and with every launch of a new Windows version. While there
are so-called sweet spots at any given time, factors such as the operating system and popular applications have an influence on the ideal amount of
RAM as well. 512 MB RAM can be considered the minimum memory capacity to execute Windows XP or Windows Vista today. However, anything less than 1 GB
will have a noticeable performance impact, as the operating system will swap data onto your hard drivewhich brings down performance and battery
runtime on notebooks. Given that, we looked at the opposite end of the equation: what would happen if you went for a comfortable 4 GB RAM capacity on
your notebook?
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01.05.2008Microsoft denies Sony's Vista hardware claims
Microsoft has denied Sony's
claim that the current release
of Vista supports neither
Intel's Turbo Memory
technology nor hybrid hard
drives.
The spat
between the companies arose
after Sony revealed to
ZDNet.co.uk that it would not
include Turbo Memory an
embedded flash memory module
formerly known by its code
name Robson in this summer's
Vaio notebooks because Vista
will not allow the benefits of
Turbo Memory to be utilised
until Service Pack 1 (SP1) of
the operating system is
released later this year.
Turbo Memory is an
optional component of Intel's
Centrino Pro/Duo platform
(previously known as Santa
Rosa), which makes use of
Vista features such as
ReadyBoost and ReadyDrive.
These features use
non-volatile "third-stage"
memory alongside a computer's
RAM and traditional hard drive
to boost performance and
start-up time. Most
manufacturers are ready to
release Centrino Pro notebooks
that include Turbo Memory,
although HP has turned it down
due to worries over cost
efficiency and the limitations
it places on users who want to
use external flash memory to
boost performance...
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07.06.2007Windows Vista Memory Tweak Guide
With every release of a new operating system come new demands and Windows Vista is by large no exception to this rule.
There are several
relevant components to the Windows memory subsystem. In this guide we will put special emphasis on the hard drive, processor and RAM, taking you
through a variety of settings to optimally configure these and hopefully end up with an overall smoother running system.
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23.10.2007RAM use rises thanks to Vista, falling prices
Microsoft's memory-hungry
Vista operating system --
along with falling dynamic RAM
prices -- is boosting
semiconductor sales.
The Semiconductor Industry
Association (SIA) reported
this week that worldwide sales
of semiconductors hit $20.3
billion in May -- 2.4% higher
than sales of $19.8 billion in
the same month a year ago.
The San Jose-based
trade association, citing
figures from one of its
members, Micron Technology
Inc., said the average amount
of DRAM installed in PCs has
increase from 772MB last year
to 1,180MB this year. ..
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05.07.2007Blueprints drawn up for quantum computer RAM
In the fundamentally fuzzy world of quantum mechanics, it can be difficult to keep clear memories, and that could be a problem for future quantum
computers.
Now three physicists in Italy and the US have proposed a method for retrieving quantum information from memory that
should make total quantum recall more reliable.
Quantum computers have the potential to do some kinds of calculation with
unprecedented speed, as small-scale demonstrations have confirmed. However, to perform most of these calculations effectively these machines will
eventually need to access something resembling random access memory (RAM) “ a large store of quantum information that can be selectively accessed.
Ordinary RAM contains a large array of memory cells, each holding one bit of information “ a binary 0 or 1. To check the contents of
particular cell, a computer accesses it using its address “ a string of bits that identifies the cell's location.
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22.08.2007Reclaim Memory by Mastering Windows' Task Manager
The best way to speed up your PC is to give it more available memorybut freeing up as much of the memory you already have is cheaper and easier than
cracking open your case to
install a
new stick of RAM. It takes a lot of memory to get a modern Windows system up and ... well, not doing anything in particular, really. Between
cryptic system processes, confusing "helper" applications, and background utilities, a whole lot of who-knows-what gobbles up memory and slows down
your work. While a lot of programs claim to optimize memory use and pare down processes, Windows' built-in Task Manager can do the job just fine,
given the right tools and know-how. Today you'll extend and empower Windows' Task Manager to speed up your system by cutting out unnecessary memory
hogs.
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15.02.2008Qimonda Samples GDDR5 Graphics Memory
Qimonda announced today that it has begun sampling its new
GDDR5 graphics RAM to customers. The GDDR5 RAM is available in 512MB capacities and will see duty in graphics cards hopefully in the near future.
Currently the vast majority of video cards on the market from ATI and NVIDIA are still running GDDR3 RAM. ATI uses GDDR4 in two of
its video cards. I have to wonder with the big video card makers not jumping on GDDR4 if the adoption of GDDR5 memory will happen very quickly.
Qimonda says that the GDDR5 standard is nearing finalization in JDEC. The RAM will be available with data rates up to 20Gytes/s per
component. That speed is more than double the bandwidth of the fastest GDDR3 modules commonly used today. The first GDDR5 using products are expected
in 2008.
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01.11.2007Bump your notebook to 2GB of RAM for $26.99 after rebate
If you bought a budget-level notebook within the past year, chances are good it came with Windows Vista and 1GB of RAM--a poor combination to say the
least. Vista needs at least 2GB to operate efficiently, especially on notebooks with integrated graphics processors (which borrow RAM from the rest of
the system).
Newegg.com has a
Transcend 2GB PC2 5300
notebook memory module for $26.99 (after a $10 mail-in rebate). Shipping will run you $4.99.
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11.01.2008Windows Vista: How much memory is enough?
Usually a hardware upgrade isn't required for a new operating system. Yet if you are planning to upgrade Microsoft Windows XP to Microsoft Windows
Vista, it's almost impossible to avoid a PC overhaul.
Aside from things like the speed of your processor (minimum 800MHz), and
using a videocard that supports Vista's sublime Aeroglass graphical interface (DirectX 9), the most important and limiting factor is going to be
memory. If the PC doesn't have enough RAM to satisfy Vista's intense thirst, you'll be the slowest thing on two wheels. For the record, Vista's
minimum memory requirement is 512MB, though realistically that should be doubled.
Much of the focus on Microsoft Windows Vista
has revolved around its steep graphical interface requirements. Vista craves graphics cards that are DirectX 9.0C compatible with 128MB of memory to
run its AeroGlass feature. Next is the large drive space requirement, sitting at 15GB just for its installation files, Vista is a fat OS.
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29.08.2007Update: Re-Testing Vista w/2GB RAM, Office 2003
exo.blog: Many of our members have requested that we re-test Vista SP1 with 2GB of RAM instead of the 1GB we used in our original tests. So, without
further delay, we present our revised results table:
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28.11.2007New RAM technology could drive portables, desktops
German engineers and physicists have made a prototype of an advanced RAM system that nears the theoretical speed limit for the process.
According to a
NewScientistTech report, this technology “ known as Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM) “ is
claimed to be faster and more efficient then RAM currentlyavailable. Some companies speculate the capabilities and low power consumption of MRAM may
push the mobile market in the years to come. So far, however, the technology is in experimental stages at the moment, and is not available for
distribution.
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14.08.2008An Overview of Troubleshooting Memory Issues - Part Two
In our
last
post, we looked at some common memory issues and how to troubleshoot them. Today we're going to go over excessive paging and memory
bottlenecks.
We've talked about issues with the page file in several posts - something to bear in mind is that although you want
to have enough RAM to prevent excessive paging, the aim should not be to try to prevent paging activity completely. Some page fault behavior is
inevitable - for example when a process is first initialized. Modified virtual pages in memory have to be updated on the disk eventually, so there
will be some amount of Page Writes /sec. However, when there is not enough RAM installed, there are two issues in particular that you may see - too
many page faults, and disk contention.
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29.01.2008Crysis Hardware Specs Revealed. Ouch.
Crysis? Gorgeous! Crysis hardware requirements? Intimidating. No one was expecting Crysis to run on their 6-year old Gateway POS9001, but the game's
final specs are, in a word, heftymaybe a tad heftier than you had imagined. PC gamers looking to spec out their new hardware set up will be thrilled
to read that Crytek has revealed the final hardware requirements for its hyper-pretty first person shooter, set to launch on November 13.
The minimum and required configurations are after the jump. Vista gamers, brace yourselves.
Minimum System
Requirements:
OS - Windows XP or Windows Vista
Processor - 2.8GHz or faster (XP); 3.2GHz or faster * (Vista)
Memory -
1GB RAM or 1.5GB RAM (Vista)
Video Card - 256MB **
Hard Drive - 12GB
Sound Card - DirectX 9.0c compatible
Recommended System Requirements:
OS - Windows XP / Vista
Processor - Intel Core 2 DUO @ 2.2GHz
Memory - 2GB
RAM
GPU - NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS/640 or similar
* Supported Processors: Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz (3.2GHz for Vista)
or faster, Intel Core 2GHz (2.2GHz for Vista) or faster, and other similar CPUs.
** Supported chipsets: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT +
or similar GPUs. Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported. Integrated chipsets are not supported. Updates to your video and
sound card drivers may be required.
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10.10.2007AMD claims memory controller breakthrough
AMD has unveiled a new memory
controller system which it
claims will double the memory
capacity on its high-end
server and workstation
systems. The G3MX technology
will target memory intensive
systems such as virtualisation
servers and large databases
when it becomes available in
2009. In conventional systems,
Ram modules connect directly
to a memory controller on the
motherboard or are built into
the CPU.
In larger
systems requiring more memory,
a buffer must be used between
the memory module and the
controller to avoid a decrease
in performance. The current
choice for this is
fully-buffered Ram modules
which contain a built-in
buffer. But the problem with
fully buffered Ram is that it
is expensive and power-hungry,
and hampers performance,
explained Nathan Brookwood,
principal analyst at
Insight64. "Fully buffered
Dims were thought to be a big
thing, and they turned out not
to be," Brookwood told
vnunet.com. "Every memory
chip paid a price in terms of
latency."
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25.07.2007Is Vista x86 a Trojan Horse for Windows7 (Vienna) after-all?
OK so here's the question
"what does it take to kill
the 32bit platform and
Microsoft's Windows Vista OS,
not even a year out of its
beta code"?
Answer: 4GB ram + GPU with
on board memory
I
take an alternative and purely
speculative look at the Vista
32bit 4GB Memory limit. And
why it may become the most
compelling reason to upgrade
to Windows 7 (Vienna) and an
answer to why Microsoft
allowed Vista to take 5 years
of development to get to
RTM
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02.08.2007How to use more than a gig of RAM on 32-bit Linux
Nowadays, many machines are running with 2-4 gigabytes of RAM, and their owners are discovering a problem: When they run 32-bit GNU/Linux
distributions, their extra RAM is not being used. Fortunately, correcting the problem is only a matter of installing or building a kernel with a few
specific parameters enabled or disabled.
The problem exists because 32-bit Linux kernels are designed to access only 1GB of RAM by default.
The workaround for this limitation is vaguely reminiscent of the virtual memory solution once used by DOS, with a high memory area of virtual memory
being constantly mapped to physical addresses. This high memory can be enabled for up to 4GB by one kernel parameter, or up to 64GB on a Pentium Pro
or higher processor with another parameter. However, since these parameters have not been needed on most machines until recently, the standard kernels
in many distributions have not enabled them.
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24.09.2007Windows Vista ReadyBoost Test Round-up
ActiveWin has posted up a
review of 3 Windows Vista
capable ReadyBoost USB
sticks.
We have
been running a number of
Windows ReadyBoost tests on
various USB Drive Sticks that
have come out recently. Not
only do we have a list of
those that work, and those
that don't! We have also
started to go in-depth with
some of them. ReadyBoost is
designed to improve small
random I/O for people who lack
the expansion slots, money,
and or technical expertise to
add additional RAM. This
isn't a replacement for RAM
upgrades; it's simply the
chance to speed up your Vista
machine very slightly and very
easily.
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15.01.2007A Mac-to-Vista Switcher in Pink
This weekend, my 13 year-old daughter and I set out to replace her first-generation MacBook. She instead picked a pink Sony VAIO running Windows Vista
Home Premium. I bought her the MacBook on launch day, May 16, 2006, at one of Apple's two Bethesda, Md., retail stores. The computer came
configured with a 2GHz Intel Core Duo processor, 512MB of RAM (which I upgraded to 1GB), 64MB dedicated integrated graphics memory, 60GB hard drive,
DVD burner, 802.11b/g wireless and Bluetooth. She does lots of video editing, which was getting increasingly difficult because of the puny hard disk,
system RAM and graphics memory.
My daughter also had some interest in Windows Vista, because of certain applications not available for Mac
OS X. We went to Fashion Valley Mall in San Diego looking at a new MacBook or a pink VAIO VGN-CR290EAP. The VAIO would mean a switch from the Mac. The
mall has Apple and Sony Style stores.
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03.12.2007Vista struggling? OCZ launch 8GB and 16GB upgrade kits
Feel like your PC could do with a little more RAM? OCZ, the California-based memory specialist, might have the answer - 8GB and 16GB upgrade kits!
Before you whip out your wallet and hit your favorite online parts retailer, a couple of words of warning. First, you can’t
just slam these modules into any system, because these modules have a density of 4GB. Before you can use these modules you’ll first need a
system that’s equipped with either a P43 or P45 chipsets motherboard (such as the ASUS P5Q WS or the Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS4P). In addition to
this, if you want to use the 4×4GB upgrade kit (as opposed to the 2×4GB kit) to go up to 16GB of RAM the motherboard HAS to be rated to take
16GB of RAM, something which not all P43 or P45 chipsets boards are rated to do (for example, a quick look through the specs show that the DFI
LANPARTY DK P45-T2RS and the ASUS P5Q Pro only support 8GB of RAM).
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