ECC support

[Chris H]

On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 22:43:12 +0300 Sami Halabi <sodynet1 at gmail.com> wrote

> hi,
> what motherboards? server or desktop?
> can you extend "abuse" ??
> 
> thanks,
> Sami
Sure.
Define abuse; in my case, on every one of their boards I've used. As
a matter of procedure. I crank the frequency, and voltage (overclock)
to the threshold all the hardware will sustain reliably. I then drop
it until FreeBSD stops complaining (runs reliably). This is true on
both Server, as well as their Desktop boards.
I tend to keep the CPU loads pretty near their ceiling all of the time.
In nearly all cases, these boards run 24/7/365. I have never had one
fail. The shortest period I've ever run one, was 5yrs. I have never
retired one because of failure. I *did* have to retire a CPU, once. But
the board it came from was unaffected.
I'd need to go through all my records to dig up the models. But the
box I use for much of my development work, that I am writing this from,
is a 880GMA-E45. It has run steady since I put it into service ~6yrs
ago.
In summary; if the chips on the boards meet your requirements, you'll
probably find these (MSI) pretty reliable work horses.

> בתאריך 16 בספט׳ 2015 22:37,‏ "Chris H" <bsd-lists at bsdforge.com>
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> > On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 10:56:52 -0700 Dieter BSD <dieterbsd at gmail.com> wrote
> > >
> > > Anyone have opinions on other mainboard companies?  ECS?  Asrock?
> > > MSI?  Zotac?  Others?
> > >
> >
> > FWIW I've abused MSI boards quite a bit. Experience has been that
> > they happily accept that abuse, and last for a good many years, in
> > spite of it. I can only speak to the ones that support AMD CPU's, tho.
> >
> > --Chris
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