Re: New Motherboards ECC memory and PCI-E issues

sndive@xxxxxxxxx writes:
Btw saw 50C on my nothbridge when running Civilization IV last night:

That's not particularly high. Is your northbridge very temparature
sensitive?

I recently measured the temperature of the heatsink of my passivly
cooled northbridge (VIA K8T800). It was 55C when Linux was idling
away at 800MHz, and 50C when playing some game under Windows (the
temperature is probably lower when playing the game because the CPU
fan spins faster). I guess the chip temperature is somewhat higher
still. I am not worried. Some part of the (passively cooled)
graphics card reached 75C when playing.

I know only one system
with bad memory (and that went bad after years of working fine). The
funny thing there was that it was ECC memory, but ECC was turned off
in the BIOS:-(.

To prevent people from detecting defective ECC memory ? :-)

My guess is: the vendor probably just did not look at that setting,
and we did not, either, and the BIOS default was set to work with the
widest range of memory out of the box. OTOH, the BIOS could have
taken the knowledge about the ECC memory out of the SPD EPROM.

- anton
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