Reply 80 of 104, by obobskivich
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wrote:How much RAM does Windows XP report with that much RAM? I thought 3GB or 3.2GB was the limit?
How much RAM does your BIOS report? I cannot seem to get the BIOS on any dual Tualatin board to report more than about 3.6GB
In XP it will report 4GB minus whatever is addressed for other devices; if you have a 1GB (or otherwise large) graphics card it will eat up a reasonable amount of memory for its addressing. With a 128MB card you should be able to see more like 3.5-3.7GB (assuming there's nothing amiss with the BIOS addressing that much memory). In addition to PAE hacks, another idea I've seen proposed recently was to mount the remaining memory over the 4GB barrier as a ramdisk, and just enable it all for paging file. In theory it should work as well. I can also add, anecdotally, that 2GB of memory isn't a problem in Windows Vista or Windows 7, of course as long as you don't need to run an application that requires more (like some newer games, but I'm guessing in those cases the Pentium 3 would also invalidate compatibility).
On the 4350 and HD decoding, have you tried the final Legacy 13.9 drivers? Or any of the earlier 12.x/13.x variants?
As far as getting stand-alone HD files, I vaguely remember Apple used to host movie trailers in 720p or 1080p (which were free to legally download).
luckybob:
I can tell you with confidence that those PCI-X to PCIe adapters would not let you enable SLI or CrossFire; your motherboard is not SLI or CrossFire compatible, and Pentium 3 doesn't support virtualization to enable various SLI enabler hacks (I'm not aware of any CrossFire hacks). MultiChrome might let you try enabling it (they don't have any sort of crypto lockout), but I'm guessing it'd run into issues because I doubt the translation card would let data swap between the two PCIe boards as intended (each translation card is essentially creating its own PCIe subsystem, versus on an SLI motherboard there are multiple PCIe links to the same controller). This all assumes they work flawlessly with a graphics card in the first place of course; which I don't think is guaranteed.