Re: Dual-Core Linux/Win machine: opinions (and facts, if any :-)), please

On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 21:52:23 +0100, Jens Tingleff wrote:


MSI has this board as non-ECC memory only (as does Crucial's advisor :-) ).
Do you know of a reasonable Dual-Core motherboard which handles ECC and is
not too badly broken?

Best Regards


I must admit it is rather uncommon for motherboards to support unbuffered
ECC memory and Asus may be an exception here. These modules are hard to
find and they do not come in pairs for dual channel support. In server
applications registered ECC memory is preferred and there are a few boards
(based, e.g., on the Nforce4 Pro chipset) that support this. If you
require ECC and want to avoid excessive spending, you could probably get
the Asus, but be prepared to fix the broken ACPI tables. There are some
tools offered by Intel that could be helpful. You could also research the
Intel option (which I don't know much about), but I suspect its
performance will be rather inferior.

--
Vladimir

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