Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 15:23:18 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> Cc: yurtesen@ispro.net.tr Subject: Re: FreeBSD Crashes with AMD Message-ID: <20040107232318.GB64718@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <200401070818.i078IF7E015950@gw.catspoiler.org> References: <200401071731.40481.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200401070818.i078IF7E015950@gw.catspoiler.org>
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On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:18:14AM -0800, Don Lewis wrote: > About the only Athlon > XP motherboards that I've found that support ECC use the AMD-761 > chipset. Unfortunately these don't support the newer Athlon XPs and they > seem to be disappearing from the market. They ones that are left are > really inexpensive, though. The Gigabyte GA7-DX+ I bought about a year > or so ago was very reasonably priced at the time and performs well. My > suspicion is that the recent lack of ECC support may be due to AMD > wanting to move "serious" users over to their new 64 bit architecture. No, the problem is AMD isn't updating the 761 chipset to do 333 or 400 FSB -- thus few want to use that chip set today. AMD is not presureing VIA, ALI, nVidia, etc... to not produce ECC supporting motherboards.
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