[dba-Tech] W7 in 2GB RAM

Here is an interesting link from Microsoft which might allow you to address more memory on a 32 system...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366796(v=vs.85).aspx

I have not researched all the details but this may be a start.

Jim


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca>
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Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2013 10:03:17 AM
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/32-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>
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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-----
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[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
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