Question : Does Windows 2003 Standard R2 32Bit with 8GB of RAM benefit from /PAE?

Hello,
I have researched a various web sites to find the fact about the meory utilization of Windows 2003 Standard R2 32Bit with 8GB of RAM with /PAE switch.
There are a lot of conflicting and ambiguous articles here and there.
I understand that 32 bit W2K3 Standard won't recognize more than 4GM of RAM.
I still plugged in total 8GB of RAM in W2K3 Std R2 machine.

Now, My question is simple and expects a binary answer, Yes or No.
Does memory utilization of Windows 2003 Standard R2 32 Bit with 8GB of RAM ( even if it recognizes 4GB only) benefit from /PAE switch?

I really appreciate someone's clear answer.

Thanks,

Answer : Does Windows 2003 Standard R2 32Bit with 8GB of RAM benefit from /PAE?

Unfortunately, Microsoft built a 4GB limit in STD edition of Win Srv 2003.  Here's their matrix on physical memory support:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/server/PAE/PAEdrv.mspx

So the answer from Microsoft is:  no; Server 2003 Standard cannot access more than 4GB of RAM.

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