[dba-Tech] W7 in 2GB RAM

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Sun Jul 28 21:37:37 CDT 2013


Good point about the external memory. According to one review that I saw, the Dell 3100 has 
a built in Card Reader, so you could stick a SD Card in it for Ready Boost.


On 28 Jul 2013 at 20:33, John R Bartow wrote:

> I think you should be OK with 2GB. Won't be a speed demon but will work. The
> big chains were selling cheap machines with 2gb RAM when 7 was first
> released. Also remember that Windows 7 can use an external USB memory stick
> to boost RAM.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin
> Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2013 3:34 PM
> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] W7 in 2GB RAM
> 
> The comps I have here that I could give him are all 2GB RAM limited - by
> hardware.
> 
> R
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
> Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2013 10:03 AM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] W7 in 2GB RAM
> 
> Note, that it does also depend on what your hardware's (and Windows)
> capability is. 
> 
> I think the absolute maximum is 3GB, even though most articles state 4GB on
> a 32 bit system but not on all...some pieces of hardware only allow the
> addressing of 2GB for a 32 bit OS...so you would have to check with the
> motherboard supplier. You have to go to a 64 bit hardware to be able to use
> more RAM.
> 
> http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-performance/3
> 2-bit-operating-system-4gb-ram-limit/6c1b942e-d1cd-4ef5-bb93-388be8b5a049
> 
> Aside: On a Linux box you will have install a Physical Address Extension
> (PAE) patch for the kernel and I have heard that as much as 16 GB of RAM can
> be addressed on a 32 bit system after that.
> 
> Jim
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rocky Smolin" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>
> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues"
> <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2013 10:36:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] W7 in 2GB RAM
> 
> Maxes out at 2GB.  I've got 3-4 machines here like that.  I wanted to give
> one to a cousin but he needs to move up to W7.
> 
> R
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan
> Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2013 6:16 PM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues; 'Off Topic'
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] W7 in 2GB RAM
> 
> >From the horses mouth:
> 
> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/system-requirements
> 
> If you want to run Windows 7 on your PC, here's what it takes:
>     1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
>     1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
>     16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
>     DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
> 
> Second question;
> 
> It should be fine to run Wordpad, Calc etc it you don't have any AV or other
> applications running in the background.
> 
> Try to run something like an Office 2010 application and you will be
> thrashing the hard drive constantly. 
> 
> Are you sure that you can't replace the current memory with  2 x 2GB chips? 
> 
> --
> Stuart
> 
> On 27 Jul 2013 at 16:37, Rocky Smolin wrote:
> 
> > Can you run W7 in 2GB RAM?  I have a Dell Dimension 3100 - has a P$ at
> > 3+GHz but which maxes out at 2GB.  Running WXP.  Will it run
> > unacceptable slowly with only 2GB RAM?
> >  
> > TIA
> >  
> > Rocky
> >  
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