Athlon64 board with ECC support?

[Jose M Rodriguez]

El Lunes, 13 de Junio de 2005 18:16, Oliver Fromme escribió:
> 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?

As far I know, only nvidia nforce4 have support for this.  But this may 
get you into problems with lan and disk (SATA).

And it's unbuffered ECC ram.

So, I think you must choose between an anthlon64 non-ECC unbuffered 
system or an opteron registered ECC system.

I've both running: an asus AV8 Pro system and a tyan tomcat k8s.  The 
tomcat part is not too expensive.

--
  josemi

>
> (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.