The Pentium was technically capable of addressing up to 4 GB of RAM. Most chipsets for it only supported up to 256 MB, however.
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The processor is capable of addressing up to 4 GB of RAM. Chipset / motherboard limitations may make the possible max for a system less than that.
64 GB when using PAE mode; 4 GB in pure 32-bit mode.
Right click My Computer, and figure out what type of processor you have first. (Pentium III, Pentium 4, Athlon, Phenom, etc). This can narrow you down to a small year range that determines the literal age of your processor. For example, the Phenom II have a maximum age range of 2008-2012. How old it is in terms of years of use? This is something nobody can tell you-- Keep track of this yourself or ask the previous owner of the processor.
Depends on it's processor speed, graphics card, and processor type as well.
May be not, because all Pentium 3 processor supported motherboard uses AGP port (4x speed, maximum is 8x used by Pentium 4s), but on the other hand, almost all Pentium D supported motherboard uses PCI Express x16 slot for video card, so they can not be seated there..... so the answer is NO, but some motherboards are available who supports a D process with an AGP slot, so the answer is YES, got your answer?make your decision! Mustakim
Some motherboards will have the ability to overclock the FSB (Front Side Bus) and make the processor run faster. Many do not, however, and thus the Pentium III can only be run at it's rated speed.
well... to really say they can't handle all of it but some of it they might. this is how it would be on an intel pentium G620 processor it would let you play on it for a maximum of 20mins then it would start lagging then in a total of 40 mins the games screen would go white and it would say check graphics card or renew it
The maximum amount of RAM supported by a computer depends on the processor and the motherboard.
As a whole, the Pentium 4 has a higher maximum performance than a Pentium III. The Pentium III performs the same as or better than Pentium 4 at the same clock speed, but the Pentium 4 has a higher max clock speed (which the Pentium 4 was designed for).
The processor (obviously)
Pentium 4 vs. Dual CoreThere are MANY differences between these two generations of Intel CPU's. Most notably, Duo Core CPU's possess two processing cores opposed to the Pentium 4's single processing core. While a Duo Core CPU may be operating at a lower overall operating frequency, it is still much more powerful then a Pentium 4 considering it's improved FSB speed, cache size, multiple cores, efficiency, etc.