Re: budget gaming hardware spec
Daniel Pittman <[email protected]>
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Owen Townend <[email protected]> writes: > 2009/3/3 Daniel Pittman <[email protected]>: >> Owen Townend <[email protected]> writes: >>> 2009/3/2 Daniel Pittman <[email protected]>: >>>> Ben <[email protected]> writes: >>>>> 2009/3/1 Voytek Eymont <[email protected]>: [...] >> My understanding is that PAE allows the system to use up to 4GB of >> physical RAM, even when some of that is located above the 4GB mark. >> >> You understand, OTOH, that it only allows RAM up to the 4GB mark. >> >> Alas, that I can't test this, because I am curious: it could be that >> I am wrong here, and that would be useful to know. > > hmm.. you've got me intrigued now, if I can get some downtime on my > (myth) TV I'll move some ram to my desktop and try it... Great. I would be very interested to know what the outcome is. > I have though had the fortune of using 6GB ram in a desktop box > running Ubuntu 32bit + server kernel. All detected, all usable[0]. Good. That says it does support remapping memory above the PCI aperture, so XP should be able to see however much is available. Regards, Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html