Comments on: Use RAMDISK on 32bit systems with 4GB RAM

By: Brent

Brent — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:16:26 +0000

SuperSpeed Ram Disk Plus will access unmanaged ram. (the ram outside of the 3.2 Gigabytes address)

I have 8 gigs of ram showing up as 3.2 gigs of ram.
I can create a 4 gig pagefile without affecting the 3.2 gigs of ram.

It costs 60 dollars. (quite expensive)
Use the trial for 15 days and see if its worth it.

By: ProDigit

ProDigit — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:59:39 +0000

Hi,
I just tried using your program on a Win Vista 32 bit system,
I have 8GB of ram, but only 3.075 MB are assigned.
If I use this program, to create a 1GB RAM drive, from the available 3 GB, 1 GB gets taken!
The unaddressable RAM does not even get touched!
In other words, I now have 2GB of free ram, and 1GB RAM Drive!
This program is totally useless!

By: Cure Blackheads

Cure Blackheads — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:59:34 +0000

Ram is actually alot cheaper than it used to be, back in the day ram used to be so expensive! But nowadays you can get a 1GB stick of ram for less than 20 dollars, which is just plain awesome! And even further back… like in the 90s… if you had a total of 1 GB of Ram in your hands, you were a millionaire, so we’ve definitely come a long way in the computer industry.

By: Olav Alexander Mjelde

Olav Alexander Mjelde — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:52:35 +0000

There are some mistakes here..
32 bit Windows (non server editions) can adress a TOTAL of 4 Gigabytes.

You have to subtract things like:
Graphics card
etc.

so, if you have 4 Gb RAM and maybe 1Gb on the GFX, you can adress some less than 3 Gb. On my work-pc, I can adress 3.1Gb. It all depends on the HW..

By: PS3

PS3 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:10:14 +0000

just use windows 7 guys! btw, does the XP-Win7 patch fix the RAM bug?

By: History of Golf

History of Golf — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:41:07 +0000

I’ve checked many websites and I only see up to 4GB (two 2GB sticks) for PC 5300. I thought Alienware would put in something higher end like DDR3 though.

By: History of Golf

History of Golf — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:40:23 +0000

I would like to buy a computer, specifically an Alienware, but I don’t want to pay the big bucks to get the 8GB of RAM put in by them, but I am having trouble finding single 4GB modules to achieve that 8GB myself.

By: History of Golf

History of Golf — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:58:28 +0000

To mix RAM from different computers you need to make sure that the computer that you are sticking these chips in is okay with the speed of the RAM from the emachine.

By: cwallen19803

cwallen19803 — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:56:05 +0000

3.838 GB RAM visible here on my Dell Inspiron 1520. I allocated the rest of the unreachable memory to RAMDISK

By: borisman

borisman — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:54:22 +0000

This is not correct. Using ramdisk is not a solution, because ramdisk takes space from your physical ram adressable by windows and lowers available ram exactly for one gigabyte. Just open up task manager and see how much physical memory is free after it has been installed.

Checked on windows 2000 and have no reasons to believe it won’t be same on winxp.