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1118467 2010-07-13 05:45:00 What is the maximum amount of RAM that Windows XP Home can handle? QW. (15883)
1118468 2010-07-13 05:47:00 XP Home 32bit can address a total of 4GB - including graphics RAM, BIOS, any other caching RAM etc etc. In reality normally around 3.5GB. wratterus (105)
1118469 2010-07-13 05:49:00 Home or pro makes no difference, it's whether it is 32 bit or 64 bit as 32 bit of any windows OS can only use 3.5-3.75GB of Ram where as a 64 bit OS can use more gary67 (56)
1118470 2010-07-13 19:42:00 I think 456 is enough ram for running the windows XP home Page.

456MB? It would run like a snail stuck to the road with superglue. Minimum 1GB
gary67 (56)
1118471 2010-07-13 22:36:00 I think 456 is enough ram for running the windows XP home Page.

Remind me what combination of RAM modules results in 456MB of RAM? Unless you have 256MB +128MB +64MB + 8MB it's uhm.... yeah.
inphinity (7274)
1118472 2010-07-13 23:37:00 Remind me what combination of RAM modules results in 456MB of RAM? Unless you have 256MB +128MB +64MB + 8MB it's uhm.... yeah.

Don't forget integrated graphics can take some RAM and change things some more.
Agent_24 (57)
1118473 2010-07-13 23:45:00 512 min actually.
will run perfectly fine.
GreacherTech (15784)
1118474 2010-07-14 00:11:00 512 min actually.
will run perfectly fine.

It does depend a bit on what you're running. Emailing, word processing and web browsing 512mb is OK - anything more intensive and you really want a bit more. XP is a lot hungrier now than it was a few years ago - Win7 on my IBM PC here uses the same amount of RAM XP did, when running a lot of apps (messenger, skype, firefox with half a million tabs open, Outlook 2010, remote desktop x2.. etc etc.
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