From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 7 11:02:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 976E216A4CE for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 11:02:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from gw.catspoiler.org (217-ip-163.nccn.net [209.79.217.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EB9343D5F for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 11:02:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from truckman@FreeBSD.org) Received: from FreeBSD.org (mousie.catspoiler.org [192.168.101.2]) by gw.catspoiler.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i07J1v7E017286; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 11:02:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from truckman@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200401071902.i07J1v7E017286@gw.catspoiler.org> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 11:01:57 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis To: doconnor@gsoft.com.au In-Reply-To: <200401072219.18917.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org cc: yurtesen@ispro.net.tr Subject: Re: FreeBSD Crashes with AMD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 19:02:16 -0000 On 7 Jan, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Maybe, it seems to me that there is a huge gap between desktop and server.. > I stopped buying 'server' boards for work when they started having dual > ethernet and dual U160 SCSI - it is pointless to have such things for a > system which doesn't do much IO (ie use an IDE disk) and only has a modem > connection.. > Unfortunately there is not much of a middle ground, and ECC supporting boards > are hard to find if you don't want server boards (at least in my neck of the > woods). I'd be happy to be proved wrong :) It's definitely getting more difficult that it used to be. Take a look at socket 370 boards with the Via Apollo Pro chipset. They are starting to get rare, but some are still available. I haven't looked at P4 boards much, but the boards with the Intel 7205 chipset support ECC and seem to be reasonably priced. As I mentioned before, for the Athlon XP, look for boards with the AMD-761 chipset. They are getting rare and don't support the latest Athlon XP's, but some are still available. The Asus board doesn't support ECC, though. Most of the AMD 64 boards support ECC, but are pricey.