Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 00:17:16 +0200 From: Lars Tunkrans <lars.tunkrans@bredband.net> To: Francois Tigeot <ftigeot@wolfpond.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Upgrade feasibility, to AMD64/5.x.x or to stay i386/4.9 on AMD64 hardware? Message-ID: <417440EC.60707@bredband.net> In-Reply-To: <20041018220121.GA15058@aoi.wolfpond.org> References: <000501c4b547$6a577b00$0300000a@transcon> <20041018220121.GA15058@aoi.wolfpond.org>
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Francois Tigeot wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 03:19:40PM -0400, Communications Machine wrote: > >>Here's what we're proposing for the new hardware: >> >>AMD Athlon64 - 3200+ (Socket 754 - I know, but it's cheap) >>MSI K8T-FSR (VIA Chipset) >>2048MB DDR400 Non-ECC RAM > > > In my experience trying to put more than 1GB RAM in a socket-754 mainboard > is asking for trouble. This type of board is incredibly picky about its > memory, especially when using more than two DIMMs. > > An Opteron platform may be a better choice here. > Yes Toms hardware has an article on this: http://www6.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20040112/index.html They say that only 3 out of 10 of the socket 754 mainboards worked with more than one DIMM.
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