Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 10:07:03 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: obrien@FreeBSD.org, Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> Cc: yurtesen@ispro.net.tr Subject: Re: FreeBSD Crashes with AMD Message-ID: <200401081007.03430.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20040107232318.GB64718@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200401071731.40481.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200401070818.i078IF7E015950@gw.catspoiler.org> <20040107232318.GB64718@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Thursday 08 January 2004 09:53, David O'Brien wrote: > > 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. Double negative? :) It certainly irritates the crap out of me that you can't seem to buy an ECC board that will fit a modern Athlon in it :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5
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