Dell Precision 530 4gb support on x86 system?

[chris89]

The dell precision 530 is an x86 dual xeon system and support 4gb ram bus.

My question is why? or can PAE be enabled in software of windows 7 x86 so the OS will get to use all 4gb?

Thanks

[arbiter1]

you can try, but of all the times I have tried to use PAE to do any machine, Never got full use of 4gb ram on x86 32bit os.

[chris89]

I wonder why they would allow 4gb support with risers yet it won't work no matter what...

I have yet to add riser boards but would like to throw the dual 3Ghz Xeon's and 4gb Rambus, 8-port sata raid pci-x 64bit card, and a pci-x 64bit to pci express x16 adapter... Throw 4 RAID0'ed SSD's, 4gb ram, win7 x86 ultimate, gtx 460 or something hahaha

I'm opening another thread on x64 based 4gb discussion...

Thanks