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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (66)	2/2/1998 11:15:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) of 14778

RAM limitations A guy on the PC Mechanic site pushed the WIN 95 RAM limitation issue. It turns out that the RAM limit is not due to WIN 95. The theoretical limit is 4GB. The amount of RAM you will be able to use is related to your hardware (motherboard, chipset,CPU) There are many chipsets that have the 64MB limitation. The ABIT LX6 supports 512 MB RAM as do many PII motherboards. >>Because of the 32bit address bus used in computers from the 386DX up to todays computers pII the maximum addressing ram is 4GB. You can calculate it your self..." 2(exp.32) " (2 being the base of the binary script) Then is up to the mainboard and the chipset how much you can pump in to it. For an example: The iFX, iVX and iTX uses a 8 bit tag ram. Therefore the maximum cache area is 64MB. To the win95 ram issue... Windows will draw some "software" memory addressing limit for you. You can expand your memory as much as your hardware can deal with.<< pcmech.pair.com (I fixed a couple of spelling mistakes) If you want to check chip set RAM support try anandtech.com Onward Zeuspaul

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