Too Much RAM For XP?

[Lord Vader III]

I'm in the process of purchasing a new PC and was thinking about going
with 1024 megs of RAM. However, my brother told me that Windows XP
actually has a problem with too much RAM and that anything over 512 may
cause me problems in the long run? Is this true or is he smoking
something he's not telling me about?

LVIII

 

[PK]

LVIII,

if you ever find out this is true then PLEASE let me know.

M$ would get a _small_ wake up call if they are wasting people's $$$'s on
RAM that cannot be used effectively and they have not made such an
announcement public.

Has more RAM ever slowed down an OS before?

PK

 

[Nicholas]

Your brother must be thinking of Windows 98/ME. Windows XP
supports up to 4GB of RAM. Realistically, 1GB of RAM works
great with Windows XP.

--
Nicholas

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| I'm in the process of purchasing a new PC and was thinking about going
| with 1024 megs of RAM. However, my brother told me that Windows XP
| actually has a problem with too much RAM and that anything over 512 may
| cause me problems in the long run? Is this true or is he smoking
| something he's not telling me about?
|
| LVIII

 

[Keith]

Yep, that's just inaccurate info, I have two XP boxes running 1gb of ram
each, with 3ghz cpu's and fast hard drives these machines simply fly. I
definitely fall into the power user category, and 1gb these days is really
not that overkill with ram being as cheap as it is, and some of the newer
games (upcoming too!) will run better with that much ram....

Keith Schaefer

--
Blackwood Toyota Parts Dept.
Your brother must be thinking of Windows 98/ME. Windows XP
supports up to 4GB of RAM. Realistically, 1GB of RAM works
great with Windows XP.

--
Nicholas

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| I'm in the process of purchasing a new PC and was thinking about going
| with 1024 megs of RAM. However, my brother told me that Windows XP
| actually has a problem with too much RAM and that anything over 512 may
| cause me problems in the long run? Is this true or is he smoking
| something he's not telling me about?
|
| LVIII

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

I'm in the process of purchasing a new PC and was thinking about going
with 1024 megs of RAM. However, my brother told me that Windows XP
actually has a problem with too much RAM and that anything over 512
may cause me problems in the long run? Is this true or is he smoking
something he's not telling me about?

LVIII

This was true of previous versions of Windows like 95/98/ME, but XP handles
up to 4GB of RAM very well.

--
Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

Please reply to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
Unsolicited e-mail is not answered.

 

[Ficman]

I have 1GB in my PC and it runs great, XP supports up
to 4GB I believe...

 

[Mike Mueller]

: I'm in the process of purchasing a new PC and was
: thinking about going with 1024 megs of RAM. However, my
: brother told me that Windows XP actually has a problem
: with too much RAM and that anything over 512 may cause me
: problems in the long run? Is this true or is he smoking
: something he's not telling me about?
:
: LVIII

He's smoking something. Win 9x didn't use 512 effectively.
I run 2GB on my home machine with no issues.

 

[Tom Lake]

This was true of previous versions of Windows like 95/98/ME, but XP
handles

up to 4GB of RAM very well.

It wasn't even true for those older OSes. All they needed was one switch
set for 1-3GB. 4GB could cause a problem, though.

Tom Lake

 

[Ken Blake]

In

I'm in the process of purchasing a new PC and was thinking about going
with 1024 megs of RAM. However, my brother told me that Windows XP
actually has a problem with too much RAM and that anything over 512
may cause me problems in the long run? Is this true or is he smoking
something he's not telling me about?

He's completely wrong.

However, whether you can make effective use of that much memory
is another question. It depends on what apps you run, but most
people will see *no* extra benefit by going above 512MB, or
sometimes even 384MB.

 

[Ken Blake]

In

It wasn't even true for those older OSes. All they needed was one
switch set for 1-3GB. 4GB could cause a problem, though.

Yes, it wasn't true for those older operating suystems, which
only needed a single line in system.ini limiting the vcache to
512MB. However, that didn't get them to be able to use 3GB of
RAM. The actual limit is either 1GB or 2GB, depending on which of
two contradictory KB articles you believed (since I know people
running over 1GB, I choose to believe the 2GB number).

 

[Larry Langrehr]

I have 1 GB on a new Dell Dimension 8300 with XP Home and it works fine. I
bought the mem because I plan to do a lot of work with very large high
resolution photoshop files.

 

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It wasn't even true for those older OSes. All they needed was one switch
set for 1-3GB. 4GB could cause a problem, though.

Tom Lake

I have 1Gb of ram and it works fine Win98 or XP,
BUT when I install another 512, Win98 will not run correctly.
I get faulty video and errors regarding not enough memory.
I tried the vcache-524288 line in system.ini but it still won't work.

I would really like to hear from someone that actually has 1,5Gb ram running
on a Win98 system and what did they do to get it to work.

S
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[David]

I'm in the process of purchasing a new PC and was thinking about going
with 1024 megs of RAM. However, my brother told me that Windows XP
actually has a problem with too much RAM and that anything over 512 may
cause me problems in the long run? Is this true or is he smoking
something he's not telling me about?

LVIII

Ask your brother to pass the doobie. XP handles 1Gb fine. And, reportedly
can handle up to 4Gb.



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[Al Dykes]

LVIII,

if you ever find out this is true then PLEASE let me know.

M$ would get a _small_ wake up call if they are wasting people's $$$'s on
RAM that cannot be used effectively and they have not made such an
announcement public.

Has more RAM ever slowed down an OS before?

PK

I know that in the past some motherboards have had problems
with max-ed out population of the largest possible memory
chips. If you're buying a name-brand system and the spec sheet
says it supports a gog of ram, go for it.

On the otherhand, this is much more memory than XP needs
unless you are into someting like computer graphic, big time.

 

[Alex Nichol]

if you ever find out this is true then PLEASE let me know.

M$ would get a _small_ wake up call if they are wasting people's $$$'s on
RAM that cannot be used effectively and they have not made such an
announcement public.

It is not true. OTOH, that amount of RAM may well be far more than is
actually needed by someones typical workload.