RAM Upgrade

[Big Al]

I would like to upgrade my memory (I have 64 MB now). I have been told that windows 95, 98 can only use 128 MB of RAM. Is this true? Is it also true that NT can use as much memory as you can install?

Big Al

[DirtyBird]

I think its more of an issue of over 128 MB of RAM, the performance improvements are rather minimal. And with some processors adding to much RAM will hurt performance. But its a pretty high number, for the PII it was 512 MB of the stuff, I would get 256 MB at the most myself.

[mjc]

Windows is capable of addressing 4GB of memory, most motherboards have less than 1GB, and Win9x doesn't see much if any performance gains over 256MB, unless you are using a program like Photoshop and large graphics then 512MB might work better. When memory prices were higher and it was prohibitively expensive to install more than 128MB is probably where this got started.

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mjc
To ME or NOT to ME....

[Rick]

Much of this idea was blamed on windows.
In fact it was and is the M/B and cache on the M/B that doesn’t support caching memory above 64meg .
Many of the old systems and dos (himem.sys) didn’t support more than 64 meg.

If you have a newer M/B it should work (cache) with more than 64 meg installed.