Can someone clear up a 32 and 64 bit question for me?

KPC84 · 12-22-2006, 10:51 PM

So I am looking at this mobo here (EVGA nForce 680i SLI NVIDIA Socket 775 ATX Motherboard / Audio / PCI Express / SLI / Dual Gigabit LAN / S/PDIF / USB 2.0 & Firewire / Serial ATA / RAID) and when it talks about ram it says 4 gigs in 32 bit and 8 gigs in 64 bit. What does that mean exactly? I know windows vista will be a 64 bit OS, so does that mean when vista comes out this mobo could theoreticaly support 8 gigs of ddr 1200 sli certified ram? Because that would be absolutely insane.

Thanks for the help.

StrangleHold · 12-22-2006, 11:39 PM

yeap, thats about what it means, XP 32bit could only handle ram up tp 4gbs. Talk about insane my board can handle up to 16gbs!

12-22-2006, 10:51 PM	#1 (permalink)
KPC84 Silver Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: New Hampshire Age: 24 Posts: 238	Can someone clear up a 32 and 64 bit question for me? So I am looking at this mobo here (EVGA nForce 680i SLI NVIDIA Socket 775 ATX Motherboard / Audio / PCI Express / SLI / Dual Gigabit LAN / S/PDIF / USB 2.0 & Firewire / Serial ATA / RAID) and when it talks about ram it says 4 gigs in 32 bit and 8 gigs in 64 bit. What does that mean exactly? I know windows vista will be a 64 bit OS, so does that mean when vista comes out this mobo could theoreticaly support 8 gigs of ddr 1200 sli certified ram? Because that would be absolutely insane. Thanks for the help. __________________ KPC84

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12-22-2006, 11:39 PM	#2 (permalink)
StrangleHold Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: In a realm of unknown Wonders Posts: 7,219	yeap, thats about what it means, XP 32bit could only handle ram up tp 4gbs. Talk about insane my board can handle up to 16gbs!