From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 20 17:13:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net (goose.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3CCA37B406 for ; Mon, 20 May 2002 17:13:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialup-63.214.212.222.dial1.philadelphia1.level3.net ([63.214.212.222] helo=sparky) by goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 179xH1-00023K-00; Mon, 20 May 2002 17:13:07 -0700 From: Jud To: "freebsd-questions" , "James A. Arnold" , "Doug Reynolds" Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 20:13:28 -0400 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) In-Reply-To: <20020520220822.6467B48449@wastegate.net> Message-Id: <97Q52WQJHSM5YKIKETRP761ZTOKINL.3ce99128@sparky> Subject: Re: AMD761 or KT266A advice MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Opera 6.02 build 1101 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 5/20/2002 6:02:36 PM, "Doug Reynolds" wrote: >On Mon, 20 May 2002 11:06:25 -0400, James A. Arnold wrote: > >>Thanks for the insights. I was considering the Abit KR7A >>until I stumbled onto the fact that those boards don't >>take advantage of ECC memory functions: [snip] Why do you want (need?) ECC memory? AIUI (though I'm by no means an expert, and could easily have this wrong), ECC memory is just a bit slower because of the error-correction functions, and is therefore usually used only where it is absolutely critical to avoid errors, e.g., in servers. (I haven't priced it recently, but my dim(m;) memory is that it costs more, too.) Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message