>>... on my new Gateway FX530XV. I don't see what all the fuss is about. Specs are:
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>>Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme Quad-Core Processor QX6700 (2.66GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 2x4MB cache)
>>4096MB 667MHz Dual-Channel DDR2 SDRAM (4-1024MB modules)
>>1000GB 7200rpm Serial ATA II/300 hard drive w/ 16MB cache & Raid 0 (2-500GB hard drives)
>>Gateway® 24" Widescreen High-Definition Performance LCD Display
>>NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTS w/ 320MB, Dual DVI-I Dual link TV Out (Factory Overclocked)
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>>Yes, I'm bragging <g>. This is a sweet machine.
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>>Incidentally, I only see 3.25GB of that 4GB memory because of the way 32-bit systems address memory. There is something called PAE that would allow me to see all of it, but NVidia doesn't support that. Even then, Vista 32-bit would only see 4GB max. The 4GB barrier (f.k.a. the 640K barrier) and 64-bit might be closer than we think.

Is that a documented shortcoming ? I remember going through BIOS hoops on a beefy server some time ago for PAE on W2K Server. But a 64-Bit version should run rings around PAE, so unless you need 16 Bit...

regards

thomas