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If the mobo only has 2 DIMM slots...
you will be limited to 2GB of physical ram. If your mobo has 3 DIMM slots, you will be able to address 3GB (there are some out there), the more DIMM slots, the more memory.

64-bit systems can address a theoretical 16 exobytes of memory. Other 64-bit systems (Sun Micro, HP, IBM) address many gigabytes, even terabytes of memory. This has beenpossible for many years. You can even tune a Linux system (if you really wanted to) to address 3GB on a 32-bit architecture.

Again, it could be your hardware choices, some chipsets may only address 2GB thus choking the Athlon64 (as they would if they worked with any other 64-bit chip). Try tuning your kernel.
Posted by: B.O.F.H.   Posted on: 02/26/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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