Gigabyte GA-B250M-D3H question: 32-bit motherboard?

[fatman80000]

Hi. I'm planning to build a new system around i5 7500 and MSI GTX1050ti OC V1 and the retailer I frequent recommended using Gigabyte GA-B250M-D3H and Kingston HyperX Fury Black 1x8GB.

Personally, I see nothing wrong and from reading the other threads the Gigabyte motherboard seems to be ok or better compared to my original choice of MSI B250M Bazooka.

However, I became a little concerned when I came upon the comment from the Memory section of the motherboard's specs from https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-B250M-D3H-rev-10#sp

"4 x DDR4 DIMM sockets supporting up to 64 GB of system memory
* Due to a Windows 32-bit operating system limitation, when more than 4 GB of physical memory is installed, the actual memory size displayed will be less than the size of the physical memory installed."

Does this mean that this is a 32-bit motherboard? Or does it just mean that if I used a 32-bit Windows, my memory will not display properly? So if I used Windows 10 64-bit OEM, I'll be fine?

Thank you for your time. I'm a little confused with the wording on Gigabyte's site partly because I presumed that 32-bit motherboards or 32-bit Windows OS were phased out a long time ago.

 

[t53186]

Not a 32-bit motherboard, just if you install 32bit version of windows it cannot access more than 4GB or ram. 64bit windows will be fine and can access the max of 64GB of ram.

 

[jojesa]

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"4 x DDR4 DIMM sockets supporting up to 64 GB of system memory
* Due to a Windows 32-bit operating system limitation, when more than 4 GB of physical memory is installed, the actual memory size displayed will be less than the size of the physical memory installed."

Does this mean that this is a 32-bit motherboard? Or does it just mean that if I used a 32-bit Windows, my memory will not display properly? So if I used Windows 10 64-bit OEM, I'll be fine?

Thank you for your time. I'm a little confused with the wording on Gigabyte's site partly because I presumed that 32-bit motherboards or 32-bit Windows OS were phased out a long time ago.

That means that if you install a 32-bit version of Windows you won't be able to have access to more than 4GB of RAM, since all 32-bit versions of Windows have a 4GB RAM limit.

If you install a 64-bit version of Windows then you can have as much RAM as supported by your system, in this case 64GB.

 

[Rogue Leader]

You can ignore that note. Its for people who for some reason would install 32 bit windows with that board, its saying if you do that no matter how much memory you install 32bit can only address 4gb.

 

[fatman80000]

Thank you Rogue Leader. Thank you t53186. Thank you jojesa. Your answers have taken a load off my mind and cleared my confusion.

Thank you all again very much. 🙂 🙂 🙂