nimebe wrote:Currently most machines are only capable of four chips and the maximum chip size is 1 gb. I said that the memory industry is unable to take advantage of the 64 bit system because I have yet to see a chip over 1 gb that would allow a consumer to use more than 4gb.
Actually current mem cards are 2 GB and I have seen some 4 GB boards meaning you can get a total of 16 GB of RAM. Now if you are taking about cost effective the 2 GB boards are coming down.
I make the distention between chips and boards because there are RAM 8-16 chips on a board and each chip is 64 MB to 512 MB in size while the board supports 1-4 GB and that is what you insert into your motherboard.
Another limitation is that you motherboard must be able to support that amount of RAM. Most now a days support 8 GB and some new ones support 16-32 GB.