Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 16:53:11 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> To: wegster@mindcore.net Cc: yurtesen@ispro.net.tr Subject: Re: FreeBSD Crashes with AMD Message-ID: <200401080053.i080rB7E018134@gw.catspoiler.org> In-Reply-To: <3FFCA255.4000806@mindcore.net>
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On 7 Jan, Scott W wrote: > Daniel O'Connor wrote: > >>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 :( >> >> >> > I'm pretty sure the current line from Tyan does. I've got an S2466 > which isn't the most current (266 MHz FSB, although the FSB ratings are > truly misleading IMHO) which supports up to Athlon MP 2800+ CPUs SMP, or > single Athlon XPs, with a gig of ECC RAM in it as we speak. I haven't > been completely thrilled with Tyan, primarily due to their pretty > limited BIOS and seeming incinations to not release many updates for > their boards, but it works well enough....I'm sure the 'replacement' to > the 2466 will continue to handle ECC any any decent server board will > (even if for some reason the 2466 doesn't have onboard SCSI :-( ) The fastest XP with a 266 MHz FSB that I found is the 2400+ which is a lot slower than the XP 3200+ with a 400 MHz FSB. There are faster MPs, but they are more expensive than the equivalent XPs. If you are content with a 266 MHz FSB, the few remaining AMD-761 uni-processor boards are a lot cheaper than this board. On the other hand, Intel 7205 based P4 boards are cheap, support ECC RAM, and support processors up to 3 GHz and 533 MHz FSB.
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