Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:07:27 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Essenz Consulting <john@athena.lightningone.net> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Motherboards for 2u Rack mounts Message-ID: <200003311707.JAA02813@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:01:03 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003310952380.57736-100000@athena.lightningone.net>
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If you've been following the news, you'll know that mixing ECC SDRAM with the i840 chipset is a recipe for disaster. > You dont have to use RDRAM in the PIIIDM3, you can use > unbuffered ecc sdram. Kentron Technologies makes superior > quality 512 Mb and 1 Gb SDRAM modules, which I have used with the PIIIDM3, > And with that setup, the thing flew! > > Yeah, RDRAM is expensive, but it is the new technology, the specs on DDR > and RDRAM are insane... > > On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > As for a good motherboard, as soon as all the bugs are ironed out with the > > > Supermicro PIIIDM3, thats a powerfull board. The 840 chipset blows away > > > 440BX/GX based boards. Not to mention 4 Gb of memory support! > > > > Not so sure about that; RDRAM is too expensive, the Rambus:SDRAM bridge > > is slow and doesn't do ECC - nice workstation board, but a terrible > > choice for a serber. > > > > -- > > \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith > > \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org > > \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > > > > > > -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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