Fuzz420 said:jeeze six slots for ram!!!!! Whats the total motherboard capacity for ram, 6 gigs.Looks like a nice board, gl with the sale
Clueless said:4 slots and it should support upto 8gigs....bump for any interested buyers on here.
Fuzz420 said::rofl: i looked too fast the first time, 8 gigs is nice, but buying 2gig sticks is not.
steven89 said:was never a fan of ASrock, im a Asus (Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe FTW) person myself![]()
steven89 said:thats true, but then again with any computer. you should never cheap out on the motherboard, especially when you try to build a high performance computer. but for those who just want a simple comp, and not planning to do much (like no gaming and such) this ASrock is perfect.
steven89 said:... but for those who just want a simple comp, and not planning to do much (like no gaming and such) this ASrock is perfect.
Clueless said:lol....trust me, unless your using Win XP x64, 4gigs will be fine...2gigs will work good too.
swaq said:I agree. Isn't the limit in regular Windows XP 2 gigs? You could also go with a 64-bit linux distro to make use of extra RAM.
swaq said:Well 2^32 is 4GB, so a 32-bit processor will only be able to address up to 4GB of memory, no matter what operating system it is running on. Even in the processor is 64-bit, if the OS is 32-bit then you'll be limited to 4GB, so 8 gigs is right out. I though I remembered the Win XP limit being at 2GB for some reason so I looked it up (http://www.brianmadden.com/content/content.asp?ID=69). It looks like you get up to 2GB dedicated to kernel usage and 2GB for the rest of the applications. So that must be where I got the 2GB limit from.
Anyway, with a 64-bit processor and OS you'll get up to 2^64 addressable memory space, which is 16 exabytes... I don't think we're going to reach that limit in my lifetime, but I could be wrong.
/geek talk