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javajunkie wrote:
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<pre wrap="">HI,
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<pre wrap="">Funny, I was advised to buy a ASUS P5B-VM since I need 8MB memory.
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<pre wrap="">I have that board. Do NOT get it for >3gb of memory.
To get >3gb of mem you need to enable "extended memory remapping" in the
bios
When you do that, the system will be very very unusably slow.
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<pre wrap="">This is valuable information. There goes the trust I had in the shop
as well :-(
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If you do go to dell, PLEASE PLEASE go to the shop first and mention the
ASUS forum (I can help you find the posts if you need) and have them
tell ASUS that they are losing sales because the bios is crappy and they
say no to linux [though I suspect that once the bios gets fixed for
windows, that x86_64 may well indeed run under it -- I am not
technically sufficient to really know].
I think the shop just didn't know the bios was crappy. They were surely
working off published specs.
Anyway, one person on the asus list mentioned a GIGABYTE GA-965GM-S2. I
personally can't say anything about it.
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Nobody answered my original question, can you fill a motherboard with
four DDR2 slots up to 8GB at all?<br>
I will tell the shop they proposed the wrong board. I want them to do
this search for me, because it should be their expertise, not mine (I
admit, I just read some articles). And when this shop advises me
properly, I don't mind they are not the cheapest around. It ends up
that the users on this list are much more knowledgeable, so I end up
doing my own research again....<br>
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