But it is relevant to the OPs query since going from 512MB to 1GB precludes those old
chip-sets.

We haven't even touched ALi, VIA and other chip-sets.  But hey, Intel is the chip-set maker
for me anyway.  :-)

Dave



"Barry Walsh" <bwalsh@SPAMMERSAREVERMINindigo.ie> wrote in message
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| David H. Lipman wrote:
| > Man those are OLD P1 Chip-sets !
| >
| > Now how about something a bit more modern, like 815, 845 and 865 chip-sets.
| >
| > Dave
| >
| >
| >
| Curiously, I can't find any mention of limits for any relatively recent
| chipsets. Since the old FX chipset cache 4096 megs I suspect they all
| can since that's also the limit of addressable memory under a 32bit
| architecture.
|
| Those figures aren't entirely irrelevant since there's a lot of people
| running SETI on some real junkpiles of machines.