FWIW my XP box with 4gb ram sees 3.25 of it. Bios on post sees it all.
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I have a 5-year old PC that is humming along just fine using XP
SP3. The board is an EVGA nForce 680i which NewEgg says will
support up to 8GB RAM:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188013
however I have always thought that XP will only "see" 4G RAM> Is
this true or will my board actually see the 8GB RAM with XP SP3? I
doubt it will, but just wanted to throw it out there, see what you guys think.
Currently I have 2 x 1GB DDR2-800 RAM Patriot brand. There are two
more DIMM slots available. Should I toss the 5-yr old sticks and
get 2 x 2GB RAM or just add 2 more 1GB sticks? RAM is cheap enough
now that in this case the cost isn't a major issue.
thanks!
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