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    PAE not working?

    PAE enables 64GB of physical address space not 4GB.
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    PAE not working?

    The OP is asking why he cannot use 4GB of RAM not why he cannot use more than 4GB. hat your right to use all 4GB of RAM got taken away after SP1, apparently due to some badly written drivers that didn't play well with more than 4GB of physical address space being available. Your PAE is...
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    DDR3 4GB detected as 2.99 GB in Xp SP3

    Not sure what your trying to ask here, something about PAE. A good article on PAE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension PAE or Physical Address Extension was introduced by Intel on the 32-bit Pentium Pro CPU way back in 1995. If we count the address pins on 32-bit CPUs...
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    DDR3 4GB detected as 2.99 GB in Xp SP3

    Almost but not exactly :p XP SP2 and onwards restricts the OS to 4GB of physical address space and because our hardware memory mapped devices use some of this space not all the 4GB of ram is available regardless of PAE. XP pre sp2 is not restricted to 4GB of physical address space but is...
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    OpenGL Fur Benchmark

    Another :o
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    Safe GPU temps

    Any idea what the accuracy of these diode temperatures are? For example if it is 20C then a 80C reading could be 100C or 60C. Why don't the manufacturers publish full specs, it would make life so much easier. :banghead:
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    GPU-Z 0.3.0 overclock fillrate and bandwidth update issue

    Just a smallie bug, if GPU-Z is running and the GPU then software overclocked the GPU clocks are updated in GPU-Z but not the fillrates and bandwidth, GPU-Z has to be closed down and restarted to display the correct values. If this has already been reported please delete this post. I tried...
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