Re: budget gaming hardware spec

Daniel Pittman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.slug.chat
Organization I know I put it down here, somewhere.
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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
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