I've looked at many motherboards, in my own computer and on websites, and I have never seen one with more than 4 slots for RAM. Why is this?
2006-10-11 13:53:28 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Space, heat, power demand, to name a few reasons. On a more functional level, why would you need more than 4 1GB sticks of RAM? At least on a home computer.
2006-10-11 13:59:11 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Older motherboards had up to 8 RAM slots, but that was because the expensive RAM chips (then) were only measured in 8K increments. Now you can buy RAM chips that go up to 1GB or more each, so a four-slot motherboard actually can give you a whopping 4GB of RAM <-- more than any typical user needs.
2006-10-12 00:46:43 · answer #2 · answered by ggfire 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because of the current motherboard design limitations for personal computers.
Because the basic consumer and small business need for the desktop and notebook personal computer do not dictate more than the current mobo architechture standard. When they do, there wil be a need for a more sophisticated PC board design standard in the industry.
Business computers - which are mainly used as servers, or midrange computers - already have more than four slots, but then, the average computer user will not fork out $8,000.00 - $12,000.00 or so for the basic barebones system.
2006-10-11 21:04:29 · answer #3 · answered by midnightlydy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can buy 1 GB modules and a 32 bit system can only address a maximum of 4 GB of RAM. Is 4 GB not enough?
There are server motherboards that have more slots but even they are rare
2006-10-11 20:57:03 · answer #4 · answered by teef_au 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is more of a limitation of board space, plus not many operating systems can utilize more then 8GB of ram. If you look into server motherboards, they can have anywhere from 2-32 ram slots
2006-10-11 20:56:12 · answer #5 · answered by amdfan12 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The size of the frontside bus prevents more than 4 ram slots
2006-10-11 21:01:34 · answer #6 · answered by Impavidus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard that Mr. Kyoto over there in Japan, who first brought a motherboard to the Americas, said that because he had 3 brothers, he was only going to give motherboards 4 memory slots. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, were talking and they said that Mr. Kyoto is nuts and we can build software programs that need more memory than Mr kyto can supply. So Mr. Kyoto had to go back to the "memory banks" and figure out what to do. He didn't want to make more slots, so he told his staff to make bigger memory chips..... that is where we are today ... 1 gig and 2 gig memory modules. (and if you wondered about parity ... Mr Kyoto's younger brothers ..... yep they are twins!!!!!)
2006-10-11 23:58:46 · answer #7 · answered by colinh33 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. Most boards cannot support more than 4 Gb and the RAM comes at 1 Gb per stick max.
2006-10-11 20:55:59 · answer #8 · answered by Cirric 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No I wish they did! Mine possess two as a result of design purposes. Consider yourself fortunate that you have four if you do. This would mean that you are not limited to the amount of RAM sticks and size u can use.
2006-10-11 20:57:22 · answer #9 · answered by Johnny Fever WKRP 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do you have any reason for more than 4GB of ram? (soon 8GB, when the 2GB modules are available).
like the 1st answerer said - 4 slots are enough.
2006-10-11 21:00:32 · answer #10 · answered by frime 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋