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eyeseeh39
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Reg'd: Sun
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I have just bought a new computer from Dell due to my old trusty machine throwing in the towel.
The new comp is a Dell Inspiron 546 with AMD Athlon 64 processor and 3GB of memory. It currently is running Windows Vista but a free upgrade to windows 7 was offered when I bought the machine.
I would like to increase the amount of memory on this PC but when I used the Crucial memory advisor it indicates that the maximum amount of memory a 32bit version of windows can use is 3GB, so it seems there is no point in increasing the memory unless I can get and run a 64bit version of Windows 7.
Can anyone tell me if this is correct?
Cheers
Iain
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BurrWalnut
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Reg'd: Tue
Posts: 3729
Loc: England
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That is correct!
Your machine will no doubt run x64 (64-bit) but your older software and hardware may misbehave, so I suggest you stick to x86 (32-bit).
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johnt
regular
Reg'd: Mon
Posts: 146
Loc: scotland
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i wouldn't go with the crucial website, i bought a studio 1737 from dell with 6gb of memory installed and crucial says i have only 4gb, i'm running vista 64bit and it seems i can go up to 8gb max, if i was running 32bit it seems the max is 4gb don't know why excactly but found this out on the dell website forum. i have also been running 32bit software on my studio and have had no problems as yet. as for windows 7 i bought it for my desktop from the microsoft shop which arrived today and it came with two discs 64bit and 32bit.
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