I want to use 8 GB ​​of RAM

[alierol]

I want to get a notebook with the following hardware,
the hardware, operating system, PCLinuxOS using the full hardware,
in particular use the full capacity of 8 MB ​​of ram?

Intel ® Core ™ i7 Processor Technology
Processor Number 2670QM
Processor Speed ​​2.2 GHz
Processor Speed ​​(Turbo Boost) 3.1 GHz
Cache Memory 6 MB
Memory (RAM) Capacity 8 GB
Hard Drive Capacity 1 TB
Memory (RAM) DDR3
Processor Brand INTEL
NVIDIA Graphics Card Brand
VGA Chipset Model GT520M
Optical Drive DVD ± RW

[AS]

I want to get a notebook with the following hardware,
the hardware, operating system, PCLinuxOS using the full hardware,
in particular use the full capacity of 8 MB ​​of ram?

Hi and welcome,
PCLinuxOS come with additional kernels, the pae enabled kernels can address up to 64 GB RAM.  

AS

[dixonpete]

You could use the test 64 bit ISO. It's functional, just you need to understand that there's no support for it.

[alierol]

Thank you for your information, I'll try

[Just18]

As already mentioned ......  install a 'pae' kernel from the repository and that will give you access to your 8GB of ram.

The 64 bit ISO is a  test  ISO and nothing more. It has bugs ....  both known and unknown. It is not designed or ready for general use. It is purely a TEST release for testers to report bugs found.

There is NO support for anyone using it.

[David_J_D]

As others have said, use a pae enabled kernel. Ideally use the pae-bfs kernel - that's what I use on my desktop OS-PCLOS XFCE (AMD Phenom II X4 @3.3GHz with 8Gb Corsair DDR3 @ 1600).
I run a lot of VMs and have had eight of them running together as a virtual network) with no noticeable slowdown (Win XP x2, Win server 2008  x3, and another distro Server and desktops as part of my Computer Security & Forensics BSc course.

[T6]

remember that you have all 8 gbs when you use a pae kernel, that doesn't mean much if you don't use lots of heavy apps or do lots of virtual machines and under that circumstance you might reach 4 gbs used, depends on how you set up apps and virtual machines

in normal usage most of us rarely reach 600 mbs of ram used on a whole day of use, this is why we can keep using machines from year 2000 with 1 gb of ram or less

once you install and load the new kernel don't expect much difference because to make system boot and work on basic apps 1 gb is more than enough, especially with that cpu and video card

[kernowyon]

remember that you have all 8 gbs when you use a pae kernel, that doesn't mean much if you don't use lots of heavy apps or do lots of virtual machines and under that circumstance you might reach 4 gbs used, depends on how you set up apps and virtual machines

in normal usage most of us rarely reach 600 mbs of ram used on a whole day of use, this is why we can keep using machines from year 2000 with 1 gb of ram or less

once you install and load the new kernel don't expect much difference because to make system boot and work on basic apps 1 gb is more than enough, especially with that cpu and video card

+1

Using an ancient machine here and using around 450Mb of RAM currently.
Go for the pae kernel as others have said if you need to use all that RAM. I would like lots of RAM for sharing with VMs, but my system runs great with 1.5Gb

[templario1st]

aliero:

  Reading your hardware,  are you talking about the super/mighty MSI laptops?....I've got the MSI GT683 R model.
It has 2 HD inside, 500 Gb each,  it was an extensive task for me,  to separate, and make the machine to read them independent.
Of course, and logically, one drive is running win7...certainly, was possible to install PClinux in the other one, but I would say, and in my very poor opinion, that runs with a very low performance, I am a PClinuxOS fan,  but seeing the high laptop's potential, I decided to switch to opensuse 12.1_64 KDE.

Man!  The  laptop's monitor supports all kind of desktop effects,  you can play open arena with all the nvidia's power, you can do other things at the same time, and I never have seen,  used RAM more than 3 Gb...btw,  the machine is able to support 16 Gb RAM...what for?

win7, practically,  flies!  ....yes!  two independent "kingdoms"  in one lap!