I was like 99% sure you were wrong because the 32 bit versions were limited to 4gb but looking up and yeah all the versions of 7 have a ram cap the depending on which SKU you were running. 192gbs was the max for 64 bit professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate. This is the full list for just Windows 7.
Windows 7 Starter 32-Bit 2GB
Windows 7 Home Basic 32-Bit 4GB
Windows 7 Home Basic 64-Bit 8GB
Windows 7 Home Premium 32-Bit 4GB
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit 16GB
Windows 7 Professional 32-Bit 4GB
Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit 192GB
Windows 7 Enterprise 32-Bit 4GB
Windows 7 Enterprise 64-Bit 192GB
Windows 7 Ultimate 32-Bit 4GB
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit 192GB
The top SKU for Windows Server 2008 r2, which was the server counterpart of Windows 7, supported up to 2tb of RAM.
But yeah this was Microsoft’s strategy for a while (and may still be): they attempted to push small business users to their server products for running servers by limiting the ram and core counts on the non-server skus.
The ram ceiling is still there but the lowest it goes on any 64bit version of 10 or 11 is 128gbs. Anything SKU above the home versions can address at least 2tb of RAM, which is probably enough.
To be fair, the computer is listed as having 500GB memory which is pretty insane
They probably just downloaded some RAM
7, 500 actually.
It just has “windows”
Wasn’t the hard cap for 7 like 64gb? Anyway I’m imagining ram smashed into pci-e slots.
I was like 99% sure you were wrong because the 32 bit versions were limited to 4gb but looking up and yeah all the versions of 7 have a ram cap the depending on which SKU you were running. 192gbs was the max for 64 bit professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate. This is the full list for just Windows 7.
The top SKU for Windows Server 2008 r2, which was the server counterpart of Windows 7, supported up to 2tb of RAM.
They did those starter sku users dirty
But yeah this was Microsoft’s strategy for a while (and may still be): they attempted to push small business users to their server products for running servers by limiting the ram and core counts on the non-server skus.
The ram ceiling is still there but the lowest it goes on any 64bit version of 10 or 11 is 128gbs. Anything SKU above the home versions can address at least 2tb of RAM, which is probably enough.