Motherboard w/ ECC?

[Rob Ellis]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 01:52:28PM -0500, Martin Cracauer wrote:
> Rob Ellis wrote on Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 01:34:06PM -0500: 
> > How important is ECC ram for a FreeBSD server? We've gone with Asus 
> > motherboards in the past, but most new ones don't support ECC...
> > 
> > If ECC is important, any recommendations for a motherboard that supports
> > AMD Athlon + ECC?
> 
> The Intel 875 chipset supports it, 865 and below do not.
> 
> I have this mainboard in my server: ASUS P4C800-E DELUXE and two
> Kingston KVR400X72C3A/512 modules.  Runs fine in dual-channel and ECC.

Thanks, I think we're going to get one of these. I was hoping to use
AMD cpu, but Intel is ok. :-)

I found this Linux ECC monitoring project page that lists chipsets
that support ECC...

  http://www.anime.net/~goemon/linux-ecc/

- Rob