Athlon64 board with ECC support?

[Oliver Fromme]

Hi,

I'm currently evaluating possibilities to upgrade to a
64bit system (preferably AMD).  I would like to get a
single-processor Athlon64 system, no Opteron, because of
heat, noise and power consumption (and price).

Furthermore, I would like to have ECC RAM.  However, it
seems that this requirement is not easy to meet.

So far, Google told me that the Athlon64 and the socket939
basically support ECC.  However, it also requires support
in the chipset and in the BIOS.  I've looked at a few
random socket939 board specs, and all of them allow the
use of ECC memory, _but_ they don't support using it for
actual error correction, i.e. they treat 72bit DIMMs like
64bit DIMMs and ignore the ECC part.  This is not what I
want, of course.

Now my question is:  Are there any Athlon64 (s939) boards
that really support ECC RAM?  Any recommendations?

(Yes, I've looked at the FreeBSD AMD64 mainboard webpage,
but it doesn't contain useful information regarding this.)

Thanks in advance for any help and advice.

Best regards
   Oliver

PS:  I'm reading the list, so there's no need to Cc me.

-- 
Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München
Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author
and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way.

(On the statement print "42 monkeys" + "1 snake":)  By the way,
both perl and Python get this wrong.  Perl gives 43 and Python
gives "42 monkeys1 snake", when the answer is clearly "41 monkeys
and 1 fat snake".        -- Jim Fulton