Maximum memory in a Mini???

[yojon]

Guys-

Would like to upgrade my Coe 2 Duo Mini 2.0 GHz. Getting conflicting info on how much memory the logic board can access. Some suppliers sell 4 Gig upgrade kits (2x2G sticks) while others say that the max is 2 Gigs (2x1 sticks).

Anybody upgrade to 4 Gig??

 

[flopticalcube]

You can upgrade to 4GB but only 3GB will be usable.

 

[Cave Man]

I have 3 gigs in my 2 gHz Mini. As FC stated, you can put in two 2 gig chips, but you'll only get about 3.1 gb of available RAM, and the dual channel performance boost isn't really significant for most tasks.

 

[yojon]

Thanks for the good advice!

Things are getting a little crowded running a VMWare XP virtual session. 3 GB will definitely be an improvement over 2 GB!

 

[costabunny]

Thanks - thats saved me a few pennies - was gonna drop into have the mini upped to 4GB, now Ill go for the 2GB instead

 

[125037]

You can upgrade to 4GB but only 3GB will be usable.

i thought leopard was able to do 64 bit stuff.. i dont know that much about this particular subject but i do know that a 32 bit will only recognize up to 3gb......?

 

[flopticalcube]

i thought leopard was able to do 64 bit stuff.. i dont know that much about this particular subject but i do know that a 32 bit will only recognize up to 3gb......?

Motherboard hardware limitation.

 

[ADent]

The chipset is only 32 bit.

Here is an article on it: http://www.appleinsider.com/article...bits_santa_rosa_and_the_great_pc_swindle.html .

Quote from the article

That means that while they can execute 64-bit code and handle 64-bit virtual memory, they still can't address more than 4GB of physical RAM, minus roughly 0.75 GB of MMIO, for a grant total of 3.2GB usable RAM.

 

[OllyW]

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