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Date:      Fri, 23 Mar 2001 18:04:09 -0600
From:      "Jim King" <jim@jimking.net>
To:        "Ed Henderson" <Ed.Henderson@Certainty.net>, <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        "'Bob Martin'" <bob@inu.net>
Subject:   Re: Good server motherboard?
Message-ID:  <001501c0b3f5$f40b8910$04e48486@marble>
References:  <001c01c0b3ea$df109920$0464a8c0@pnt004>

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"Ed Henderson" <Ed.Henderson@Certainty.net> wrote:
>I plan to use AMD Athlon chips, tower case, IDE drives/peripherals,
>at least 256MB RAM.  Budget is limited since we are just beginning:
>approx. $1300 per server (not including tape drive which is seperate
>see #3 below).  Servers will host typical ISP apps: DNS, RADIUS,
>mail, Apache, etc.

When I looked a couple months ago none of the Athlon motherboards supported
ECC memory.  Considering the amount of potential grief you'll avoid by using
ECC memory I'd say that Athlon shouldn't be considered. :-(

Jim



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