Finding Ram Sticks

[terrycampbell384]

I have a Gigabyte motherboard GA-G41MT-D3 [socket 775] which takes single channel DDR3 ram-there are only 2 slots.The board works fine & the ram read as 4GB-until I installed Windows 6-now it reads as 2GB & is as slow as ''Old Harry''.Kingston no longer make compatible ram in the larger GB sizes for this board.Does anyone know a suitable replacement,manufacturer,supplier or 2nd hand dealer -I would really like better performance short of reloading Windows 7.Can Anyone Help? T.Campbell

 

[furzfresse123]

You probably installed the 32bit version of (Windows 10?), which can only allocate RAM up to approx 2 Gigabyte.
In settings, go to System -> Info, if it says that you are using a 32 bit version of Windows you have to reinstall the 64 bit version.

 

[Wolfshadw]

32-bit operating systems have a maximum 4GB of addressable memory space. Some of that addressable space is reserved. Some of it is used by your hardware. The rest is available for your system memory. Typically, what is left ranges between 2.75GB and 3.25GB out of however much RAM you installed (4GB and over).

-Wolf sends