Fresh Lion install with 16 Gb of RAM from the start?

[Jfclouti]

Most people seem to put in only 4 Gb, install Lion and then put in the other 12 Gb afterwards. Why?

Is it possible to fully load the motherboard with 16 Gb (4 x 4Gb) of RAM and install Lion using UniBeast right from the start?

Thanks.

 

[tvirelli]

Not sure about 16GB but I did an install with 8GB installed from the start with no issues.

 

[foopy]

Yes, you should be able to install Lion with 16 GB of RAM installed. I have done so a number of times. In fact, my first hackintosh was in the day of 10.6.2 and I installed that version of Snow Leopard with 16 GB installed using iBoot and a retail Snow Leopard DVD. From what I've read the smaller RAM requirement was in the early days of iBoot.

 

[joppez]

I've done it too with 16Gb on Lion and had no problems whatsoever (apart from the usual HD3000 glitches and some problems with the network).

 

[Olivier75009]

I made all my Hackintoshes with 24 Go full slot fed, from 10.6 to 10.7 and also 10.7.2 from scratch.
Never had any problem.