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Originally Posted by danlisa
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Originally Posted by Thomen
More than 4 GB RAM only really works on 64bit systems. Even Vista 32bit can only address up to 3GB of memory, I believe.
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Partly true. 
Even on XP you can enable the full use of 4GB by applying a switch to the boot.ini. This allows applications that use more than 1GB of physical RAM when running to access the additional RAM presented by having 4GB. The OS will still only list as having 3GB but apps will use it. |
The /PAE or /3GB switch aren't really helpful, since you will effectively loose RAM (as far as the system is concerned) if you a use a video card or mulitple with a large amount of video ram.
I m not saying it wont work, it is just not as effective as it ought to be.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000811.html