And the key phrase in that article is this: "However, even with a 64-bit OS, you'll still be at the mercy of your motherboard's chipset and BIOS; make sure your motherboard supports using 4 GB or more of memory, ..."
To wit, I've got a computer with a 64-bit CPU, 4 GB of RAM, running 64-bit Ubuntu, and I still only have access to 3.2 GB of RAM. Regards, - Robert On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 6:05 AM, Craig Tatham <[email protected]> wrote: > You should be able to get up to about 3.5GB but you are going to lose the > rest. Here is an excellent blog post written up on the subject that might > explain things better than I ever could. > http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000811.html > Craig > > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Craig Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hey, >> >> I have a Dell PowerEdge SC420 with a 2.8GHz intel pentium 4 HT >> processor and 2Gb of memory installed. I'm running Ubuntu (installed >> 32bit version) and want to know if the version of Ubuntu that I >> installed affects the max memory (4BG) I can ultimately install in the >> computer. I want to install 4 GB but I was talking to a friend said >> that with the 32bit version of Ubuntu the max I would see is 3.0 GB. >> What's the deal? >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
