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What is the maximum amount of RAM windows 7 Support with 32bit systems "if there will be 32bit and 64bit versions"

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by bfilmfan

32-bit operating systems can only address 4 GB of RAM.

The formula for how much memory an architecture can address is 2^X where in this case X is 32 => 2^32 = 4294967296 bytes = 4GB.

64-bit systems can address 16.8 Million terabyes.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit

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