"Mr. E. Mann" wrote in
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Hi,

I'm planning on putting together an athlon 64 system when I get my tax
return and I'm looking for a good motherboard that will accept 3GB or
ram (or more). I know windows doesn't really allow a program to
accessmore than 2GB of ram, but I hear XP pro can access more with
certain setup. Either way, I use a program that will use all 2GB of
ram allowed it, so having 3GB will allow windows to load all of it's
bloat outside of that 2GB program limit. Does that make any sense?

Ok, my real question... I have found motherboards that claim they alow
3GB of ram, but I've also read that some will not allow you to
actually use 3GB of ram? If they can't use 3GB of ram, why would they
allow you to install 3GB? This makes no sense to me.

Win NT 4 and later can handle normally 4GB of memory,
but with the PAE boot switch up to 64GB.

(PAE is supported on Windows 2000 Datacenter Server; Windows 2000
Advanced Server; Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Editon; and Windows
Server 2003, Datacenter Edition.)

A single process (task) can normally access 2GB,
but with the /3GB boot switch it can access 3GB.

(This parameter is fully functional on Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0,
Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 3, Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced
Server, Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, Windows XP, and Windows
Server 2003.)

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Peter Strömberg
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