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Posted: **Thu Apr 18, 2013 9:52 am**

It is stated in many threads here that X60s can take up to 4 GB RAM, but only around 3 GB of it will be usable due to hardware limitations. Does this mean that the unused ~1 GB is completely "lost" for the system? Or could it be mounted as a a RAM disk instead?

For background: I'm on Linux and thinking about setting up a poor man's SSD completely noiseless, RAM-booted system as described here.

Thanks for any explanations!

Posted: **Thu Apr 18, 2013 10:03 am**

The chipset can only utilize max of 3 GB. So yes the other 1 GB cannot be use at all.

Posted: **Thu Apr 18, 2013 10:20 am**

Cigarguy wrote:The chipset can only utilize max of 3 GB. So yes the other 1 GB cannot be use at all.

Thanks mate!

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