Yep.  If your using sli, pae doesn't work at all, and you can't use it and boot 
to an ncidia or intel sata. RAID either


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-----Original Message-----
From: Thane Sherrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:07:52 
To:CW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [H] Memory Question

At 01:49 PM 28/01/2007, CW wrote:
>While you can force Windows to see 4GB in a 32bit mode (through PAE) 
>the performance hit is SIGNIFICANT.  I mean, more then a small bit, 
>I mean -SIGNIFICANT- which completely neutralizes any benefit of doing it.
>So, if you're doing 4GB and you stay with the native memory 
>management modes, you will see ~3.2GB in most configurations (this 
>can be impacted by video cards used, etc.)

Ok, that's very interesting.  I don't have any machines with more 
than 1GB and XP, so I've never played with it.  So effectively, 3GB 
is the maximum for 32bit XP (and presumably, Vista?)

T 


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