Re: 4GB memory and Intel Dual-Core system

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On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 03:03:08PM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > Wrong IA-32 supports more than 4Gb in PAE 36bit physical 32bit virtual
> > mode and has done since the Preventium Pro
> 
> Indeed ... I have 64GB ia32 boxes ;-)

And Intel server chipsets do support remapping.  I've seen boards with 2
GB IO holes remapped above 4 GB.

A 4 GB system reports 6 GB of memory, 4 of which are usable as DRAM.
Intel doesn't document it, but there's a slight performance hit for the
remapped memory, too.
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