Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 10:00:59 +1100 (EDT) From: Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au> To: bow <bow@bow.net> Cc: <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ECS K7S5A? Message-ID: <Pine.OS2.4.32.0112090955270.2060-100000@tenring.andymac.org> In-Reply-To: <20011208012446.A76747@bow.net>
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On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, bow wrote:
> ECC? Does that make a huge difference?
>
> Do you have any suggestions for a good motherboard to support a AMD 1800?
> It's going to be for a mail server that handles around 100,000 messages
> a day. I am going to be using DDR RAM, mostlikely 512MB.
I wouldn't run a serious server (100k mails a day counts as serious IMHO)
without ECC to catch RAM going bad.
Regarding your CPU choice, make sure that your cooling system can cope
with the heat load, and make sure that you have functional thermal
monitoring.
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