Windows 7 Does Windows 7 32-Bit Require BIOS Switch for Maximum RAM Access?

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• Aug 12, 2010

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Kwakazaki said:

I have trawled the web and Microsoft's site, but cannot get a definitive answer regards memory for Win 7 32 bit. For XP there was a BIOS switch to make more than the standard available, maxing out at ~3.2Gb. Does that same switch exist under Win 7, or is this now automatically taken care of?

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You don't need to worry about a BIOS switch for Windows 7, for a 32-bit version the memory maxes out at 3.2 GB as you stated.

However, if you have say... 4GB of RAM installed why not just install Windows 7 64-bit version and utilize all of the RAM available?

Your system will run better and faster plus the bandwidth is double too.

 

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Many thanks indeed, that is a big help,
The reason for not upgrading to 64 bit is platform application incompatibilities.... unfortunately...!
Otherwise we would,
Best regards,

 

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