Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:02:40 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: adridg@cs.kun.nl Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: which motherboard and which chipset? Message-ID: <20040216080240.GD54371@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0402142306560.8917-100000@wn4.sci.kun.nl> References: <002c01c3f312$947a26a0$c901a8c0@ts> <Pine.GSO.4.44.0402142306560.8917-100000@wn4.sci.kun.nl>
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On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 11:26:06PM +0100, Adriaan de Groot wrote: > Take a look at the archives of this list (via > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 ), there's lot of > hardware mentioned. I think a lot depends on how much memory you need to > support your users: Athlon64 boards (single CPU) tend to top out at 4G > theoretical and 3G practical (like my Asus k8v, with 3 slots so I could > stick 3G of DDR266 in it) ; Opteron boards for single CPU with 4 slots top > out at 8G theoretical (4x2G Registered), but I hear tales of an sk8n > supporting only 3.5G. Dual boards run up to 8 slots, for 16G of memory. Not just SK8N's. Just about every AMD64 mobo will "loose" physical memory from 3.5-4GB. So one would get 17.5GB in your example of 8x2GB DIMM's. The reasons have been explained in this list before. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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