tronica Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 Im using kalyway 10.5.1 and have 4 gigs of ram currently, i max it out frequently and have decided to up the ram to 8 gigs. will it be able to see all 8gigs of ram? and how do i know if its running in 64bit mode to use all the ram? Heres my specs: Q6600 GA-P35-DS3L 4gigs ddr2 800 8800gts kalyway 10.5.1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86376-simple-ram-question/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
tronica Posted February 9, 2008 Author Share Posted February 9, 2008 anybody? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86376-simple-ram-question/#findComment-615439 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headrush69 Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 Im using kalyway 10.5.1 and have 4 gigs of ram currently, i max it out frequently and have decided to up the ram to 8 gigs. will it be able to see all 8gigs of ram? and how do i know if its running in 64bit mode to use all the ram? Heres my specs: Yes it should see all 8 GBs if your motherboard supports it. What do you mean by maxing it out? If you are just going by the Activity Monitor than this is normal and will likely happen with 8GB also. The OS will use all the memory to best optimize the system. Unless you are doing things like running many virtual machines or heavy video editing, those types of things, 4GB is probably more than sufficient for you. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86376-simple-ram-question/#findComment-615546 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grooby97 Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 However, if you just need an excuse to get more RAM, then I say go for it! more RAM the better! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86376-simple-ram-question/#findComment-615581 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tronica Posted February 9, 2008 Author Share Posted February 9, 2008 im going by menumeters. Also i have 8 vm's running linux xp/vista etc... im all tapped out thanks for the info Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86376-simple-ram-question/#findComment-615692 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headrush69 Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 Also i have 8 vm's running linux xp/vista etc... im all tapped out thanks for the info Are you doing network related things between OSes or are you actually using all 8 OSes at once? (You must be good. ) Memory Supports DDR2 1066*/800/667memory Dual Channel architecture supports up to 8GB by 4 DIMM slots * Please refer "Memory Support List" for memory support information. P.S. Add your machine specs to your signature in profile. That way when people quote you it won't include that and we don't have to manually erase it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86376-simple-ram-question/#findComment-615724 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle_Pinny Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 I'd be very interested to see if this works. After lots of HEAVY testing my board (965P) will not allow for more than 3.2 gb to be used (fully load up your system with multiple divx's playing, itunes encoding and Photoshop with loads of images open). Watch activity monitor until it kicks to 3gb in use - I'd be surprised if you don't have a kernal panic the moment that happens. Maybe just my board (most likely) but I'd recommend trying it. Most people never really push over 3gb of memory in use with everyday use so try it and see if that's the case before buying more. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86376-simple-ram-question/#findComment-617904 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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