This is off topic, but several of Intel's recent chipsets have had memory
addressability limitations. The 810 and it's variants, for instance cannot
even address 1 gig (I forget the threshold, either 512 or 768).
Pat
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Greenbank" <steve@gccl.fsbusiness.co.uk>
> > There are also large numbers of motherboards around which don't
> > cache the memory above 512Mb (or an even lower limit). With those it
may
> > degrade overall performance to add more than 512 Mb.
> >
>
> I can't think of any motherboards for Pentium II/III/IV,Celerons,Athlons
or
> Durons for which this will apply as they all have onboard 2nd level cache
> with the exception of the early celerons (266 & 300 [plain 300]). The 266
&
> 300 celerons were pathetic due to a complete lack of 2nd level cache.
>
> The only limit that I can remember is 64MB for Intel TX chipset which was
> for Pentium I.
>
> Steve
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