From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Dec 8 19:21:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from posgate.acis.com.au (posgate.acis.com.au [203.14.230.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EB8537B50B for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 19:21:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (dialup-2.aaa.net.au [203.14.230.67]) by posgate.acis.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fB93L5Q07355; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 14:21:06 +1100 Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au ([203.9.107.238]) by bullseye.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA23752; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 11:06:21 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 10:00:59 +1100 (EDT) From: Andrew MacIntyre To: bow Cc: Subject: Re: ECS K7S5A? In-Reply-To: <20011208012446.A76747@bow.net> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: andymac@bullseye.andymac.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@pcug.org.au | Belconnen ACT 2616 Web: http://www.andymac.org/ | Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message