Athlon64 board with ECC support?

[Peter Wemm]

On Monday 13 June 2005 11:38 am, Jose M Rodriguez wrote:
> 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).

The system chipset has nothing to do with ECC support.  Unlike on Intel 
systems, memory is connected to the CPU, not the chipset.  The chipset 
(nforce vs via vs whatever) has no say in the matter.

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