Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:17:53 -0500 From: Rob Ellis <rob@web.ca> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Motherboard w/ ECC? Message-ID: <20040330161753.GA22072@web.ca> In-Reply-To: <20040329135228.A38644@cons.org> References: <20040326183405.GD34158@web.ca> <20040329135228.A38644@cons.org>
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On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 01:52:28PM -0500, Martin Cracauer wrote: > Rob Ellis wrote on Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 01:34:06PM -0500: > > How important is ECC ram for a FreeBSD server? We've gone with Asus > > motherboards in the past, but most new ones don't support ECC... > > > > If ECC is important, any recommendations for a motherboard that supports > > AMD Athlon + ECC? > > The Intel 875 chipset supports it, 865 and below do not. > > I have this mainboard in my server: ASUS P4C800-E DELUXE and two > Kingston KVR400X72C3A/512 modules. Runs fine in dual-channel and ECC. Thanks, I think we're going to get one of these. I was hoping to use AMD cpu, but Intel is ok. :-) I found this Linux ECC monitoring project page that lists chipsets that support ECC... http://www.anime.net/~goemon/linux-ecc/ - Rob
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