Athlon64 board with ECC support?

[Jose M Rodriguez]

El Lunes, 13 de Junio de 2005 20:47, Peter Wemm escribió:
> 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.

Well, I only see this in new nvidia nforce4 based boards.  I also think 
this is more a bios problem.

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  josemi