Andy,
The paperwoek on my motherboard, which is pre Vista, states that if
you put 4 gigs in you can use 3.5. My feelings are why bother with a
full gig to get 1/2 gig.
Scott in tAcoma
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> Levi, I suggest you read it again, 4th paragraph down
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> "Due to an architectural decision made long ago, if you have 4GB
of
> physical RAM installed, Windows is only able to report a portion
of the physical 4GB
> of RAM (ranges from ~2.75GB to 3.5GB depending on the devices
installed,
> motherboard's chipset & BIOS)."
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> There are plenty of other sources that say the same, as far as I'm
aware 3.5
> is bigger than 3 
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> Andy
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> Yes I did read it. Windows xp is limited to 3gb of ram. It's an OS
> limitation not a Bios limitation. PAE doesn't exactly work well
even with servers.
> 64bit to me is the simple answer. Oh, btw, I run 2 8800gtx's so
when I run 32bit
> I get only 2.2gb of ram. I don't have much of a choice. I won't
even go
> into our cad and viz stations.
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> From: _Nikon-D50yahoogrouNikon-_ (mailto:Nikon-
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> Subject: Re: [Nikon-D50] Re: Computer
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> Come off it Levi, it's not April 1st yet
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> The address limit is 4 Gig, when you start the computer the bios
checks
> everything that will need an address and allocates it, that stops
anything
> else
>; using it. Then Windows (or Linux if you're that way inclined)
starts and
> takes
> it's piece. Which is what your link says in spite of it's stupid
name
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> In fact, and someone on that link mentions it, you can have more
than 4 gigs
>; of useable RAM on a 32 bit system but I believe it's a PITA so
it's mostly
> used by servers
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> Andy
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> Actually it's not that xp is limited to 4gb of address space...
32bit
> operating systems are limited to 3gb of address space...
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> (http://blogs.msdn.com/hiltonl/archive/2007/04/13/the-3gb-not-4gb-
ram-problem.aspx) )
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> That should answer any questions. It is also why I run Vista
Ultimate 64bit
> on my laptop as it has 4gb of ram.
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