From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 13 16:16:16 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95A7316A41C for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:16:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [83.120.8.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 033E743D1F for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:16:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (jajcho@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j5DGGDXw067535 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:16:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j5DGGDfr067534; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:16:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:16:13 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200506131616.j5DGGDfr067534@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-amd64 User-Agent: tin/1.5.4-20000523 ("1959") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-RELEASE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: Athlon64 board with ECC support? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:16:16 -0000 Hi, I'm currently evaluating possibilities to upgrade to a 64bit system (preferably AMD). I would like to get a single-processor Athlon64 system, no Opteron, because of heat, noise and power consumption (and price). Furthermore, I would like to have ECC RAM. However, it seems that this requirement is not easy to meet. So far, Google told me that the Athlon64 and the socket939 basically support ECC. However, it also requires support in the chipset and in the BIOS. I've looked at a few random socket939 board specs, and all of them allow the use of ECC memory, _but_ they don't support using it for actual error correction, i.e. they treat 72bit DIMMs like 64bit DIMMs and ignore the ECC part. This is not what I want, of course. Now my question is: Are there any Athlon64 (s939) boards that really support ECC RAM? Any recommendations? (Yes, I've looked at the FreeBSD AMD64 mainboard webpage, but it doesn't contain useful information regarding this.) Thanks in advance for any help and advice. Best regards Oliver PS: I'm reading the list, so there's no need to Cc me. -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. (On the statement print "42 monkeys" + "1 snake":) By the way, both perl and Python get this wrong. Perl gives 43 and Python gives "42 monkeys1 snake", when the answer is clearly "41 monkeys and 1 fat snake". -- Jim Fulton