Re: Anybody have 4 GB (ram) in their system ?
- From: "Roger Hamlett" <rogerspamignored@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 21:14:38 GMT
"Tom Lake" <tlake@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> I have an MSI GNB Max with P4 3.06GHz and 4GB dual channel DDR RAM.
>>
>> Do you get the full 4GB in Windows?
>>
>> In my experience, there's no motherboard out there today designed for
>> non-workstation chips (i.e. non-Xeon / Opteron) that works 100% - and I
>> mean 100% - stable with more than 2GB of memory.
>
> Windows reports 3.5GB RAM and the GNB Max *IS* 100% stable.
> The chipset is the Intel E7205 server chipset with a 533MHz FSB and can
> only use up to DDR 2100 but with the dual channel configuration, that
> gives
> the CPU all the bandwidth it can use anyway. Using faster RAM wouldn't
> speed up the processor at all. I've run it 24/7 for about two years now,
> only rebooting after new software installs or updates
>
> Tom Lake
If you ran with XP server, given that yours is a 'server' chipset, you
ought to see 4GB reported, rather than 3.5GB. This is because of the
memory limitations I mentioned, where the motherboard devices need some
memory area. There is an address extension mode, that gets round this, is
supported on the SLI, ought to be supported on your board, but requires XP
server, or 'better' to use. On the SLI, how much memory you see in
standard XP, depends on what video cards you have fitted. It can drop to
only about 3.2GB, if you have two cards using SLI.
Best Wishes
.
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