Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 15:49:55 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: yurtesen@ispro.net.tr Subject: Re: FreeBSD Crashes with AMD Message-ID: <20040107234955.GA65187@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <200401081007.03430.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <200401071731.40481.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200401070818.i078IF7E015950@gw.catspoiler.org> <20040107232318.GB64718@dragon.nuxi.com> <200401081007.03430.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:07:03AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Thursday 08 January 2004 09:53, David O'Brien wrote: > > > or so ago was very reasonably priced at the time and performs well. My > > > suspicion is that the recent lack of ECC support may be due to AMD > > > wanting to move "serious" users over to their new 64 bit architecture. > > > > No, the problem is AMD isn't updating the 761 chipset to do 333 or 400 > > FSB -- thus few want to use that chip set today. AMD is not presureing > > VIA, ALI, nVidia, etc... to not produce ECC supporting motherboards. > > Double negative? :) > > It certainly irritates the crap out of me that you can't seem to buy an ECC > board that will fit a modern Athlon in it :( There are "modern" Athlons for SMP boards: the MP 2800+ -- it is a "Barton" CPU with 512KB L2 cache. It is runs at 266FSB rather than 333 or 400 though.
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