You can boot it with pae. And I think it would see more. 

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On Nov 28, 2011, at 5:20 PM, FORC5 <[email protected]> wrote:

> FWIW my XP box with 4gb ram sees 3.25 of it. Bios on post sees it all.
> 
> fp
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> At 11:50 PM 11/27/2011, Veech Poked the stick with:
>> 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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