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To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
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Subject: Re: Comments on four mobos 
Reply-To: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>
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Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>

> Do any of those other supposedly "decent" chipsets include support for
> ECC DDR RAM?  AFAIK, only AMD's chipsets support ECC.  I'd be very
> happy to be wrong..

     I don't know, but you've got to be careful with "AMD chipsets" and
motherboard manufacturers.  For example, the ASUS A7M266, although it
uses the AMD 760, does not support ECC (you can use ECC RAM, but it
won't do anything).

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	Darryl Okahata
	darrylo@soco.agilent.com

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