Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ild who wrote (43715)	12/31/2005 9:24:53 PM
From: regli	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

I think that we will soon see that the premium applications will soon only be 64 bit. It will be simply a repeat of the 80286 and 80386 days in the early 90s. The Intel 915 chipset (Alviso/Sonoma) only supports 2GB. The theoretical physical address limit for the Pentium M is 64GB (36 address pins) to my knowledge but as far as I know for this processor no chipset has been implemented that can use more than 2GB. My 64 bit system only has 2GB of memory but I am looking for a motherboard with an 8GB or larger capacity, maybe a Tyan. However, I haven't seen yet any socket 939 based boards that support larger than 4GBs though cheaper Opterons are now becoming available.