Re: 4GB memory and Intel Dual-Core system

From: Alan Cox
Date: Sun Oct 30 2005 - 16:54:36 EST


On Iau, 2005-10-27 at 17:15 -0400, Alejandro Bonilla wrote:
> > so there is no way to give me back the "lost" memory. Is it possible
> > that another motherboard might help?
>
> AFAIK, No. AMD and Intel will always do the same thing until we all move to
> real IA64.

Fortunately you can use a real processor with 4GB of RAM as well as an
IA-64 (if you can find one even!). It is chipset dependant whether RAM
lost to the PCI window can be made to appear over the 4GB boundary with
a PAE capable intel ia32 processor (or clone) with an AMD x86-64
processor (or clone)

It depends entirely on the chipset quality

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