How do I see how much memory the motherboard supports?

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Author: User

Because the work often need to open a lot of software and Web pages at the same time, resulting in the computer memory footprint often reached more than 80%, the computer obviously changed very much card, so intend to upgrade, a large memory. But here's a question to consider: How much memory does the motherboard support? Because the motherboard supports the size of the memory is limited, if the purchase of memory is too large, the motherboard is not compatible with the trouble, the following small series for you to introduce 2 kinds of viewing the motherboard to support how large memory methods, I hope that the need to upgrade the computer memory or new installed friends help.

How to see the computer motherboard support How much memory? Many small white was asked this question will be a blank face, for some of the computer more familiar friends, may think by looking up the motherboard parameters to understand. This is a method, but there is a simpler way, small series is not suspense, detailed next method.

 How do I see how much memory the motherboard supports? Method One: Calculation method (recommended)

First, open the computer, and then open the "Run" from the Start menu, you can also use the "Win + R" combination of shortcut keys open, and then open the following type: cmd, finished press Enter or "OK" to enter, as shown in the following figure.

Second, in the Open cmd command box operation, we type the command: WMIC memphysical get Maxcapacity (after completion, press ENTER to run), you can obtain the following a numerical result, the following figure.

Third, the last to open the calculator (can be by computer with a calculator or using mobile phone calculation), the above query to the value divided by 1024, the final result is the motherboard can support the largest memory.

For example, the figure of the author's computer 16777216/1024 = 16384 (about 16GB), which shows that the author used this computer, the largest support for 16GB memory, if you want to upgrade or change the memory, the use of memory, the maximum can be used 16GB of memory.

How to see how much memory the motherboard supports? Method two: View motherboard parameters

If you need to see how much memory the motherboard supports through the motherboard parameters, this method requires that you know the model of the computer's motherboard, and then go online to view the motherboard parameter information according to the model.

See the motherboard model method is also relatively simple, we can use the hardware detection tools such as Lu, quickly learned, as shown in the following figure.

Some notebook board models are more special, more difficult to find parameters, generally recommended that everyone use method one (WwW.PC841.com computer Pepsi net). and desktop computer board parameters better check, mainly understand the motherboard chipset can be queried, such as B85 motherboard, the general maximum can support 16GB memory, as shown in the following figure.

View the motherboard parameter information is very simple, we can search online or online shopping mall search products, and then look at the specific parameters, which can be found inside.

Related knowledge: How to look at the motherboard parameters rookie must see the motherboard parameters knowledge

Overall, to see how much memory motherboard support is not difficult, but the above 2 methods, the general computer users may also rarely want to, especially through the calculation method to see how much memory motherboard support, many friends do not know, I hope this article can help you to raise some computer knowledge.

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