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I don't think it's normally apparent, since PAE is needed for NX (which is enabled by default starting with XP SP2) --- so the majority of 32-bit systems at the time were running in PAE mode, just with an artificial limitation to 4GB.



Hm. My memory is fuzzy on that, but isn't < 4Gb access was the same/with a litle impact and only > 4Gb were slower?




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