Operating system Maximum memory support with PAE
Windows 2000 Professional 4 GB of physical RAM
Windows 2000 Advanced Server 8 GB of physical RAM and 8 processors
Windows 2000 Datacenter Server 32 GB of physical RAM and 32 processors
Windows XP (all versions) 4 GB of physical RAM*
Windows Server 2003 (and SP1), Standard Edition 4 GB of physical RAM*
Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition 32 GB of physical RAM and 8 processors
Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition 64 GB of physical RAM and 32 processors
Windows Server 2003 SP1, Enterprise Edition 64 GB of physical RAM and 8 processors
Windows Server 2003 SP1, Datacenter Edition 128 GB of physical RAM and 32 processors
* Total physical address space is limited to 4 GB on these versions of Windows.
PAE is an Intel-provided memory address extension that enables support of greater than 4 GB of physical memory for most 32-bit (IA-32) Intel Pentium Pro and later platforms.
PAE is supported only on 32-bit versions of the Windows operating system. 64-bit versions of Windows do not support PAE. |