  Non-compact QED(3) with four-component fermion flavor content larger than or
equal to two is studied numerically near the chiral limit to understand its
chiral symmetry breaking features. We monitor discretization and finite size
effects on the chiral condensate by simulating the model at different values of
the gauge coupling on lattices ranging in size from 10^3 to 50^3. Our upper
bound for the dimensionless condensate beta^2<psibarpsi> in the N_f=2 case is
5x10^{-5}.
