mb recommendation

Francois Tigeot ftigeot at wolfpond.org
Fri Apr 28 06:46:33 UTC 2006


On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:59:13AM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
> 
> On Apr 25, 2006, at 4:30 PM, JoaoBR wrote:
> 
> >>Without it, only 3GB of RAM are usable.
> >>
> >
> >more or less 3.5 - 3.7, yes
> 
> On a SunFire X4100, with the default BIOS settings, 4GB RAM shows up  
> as 3GB.  When you turn on the software (or hardware if your  
> configuration permits) remapping, you get to bump this up to about  
> 3.7GB.  Still lame, but what can ya do...

With the Supermicro H8-SSL-i, you get almost the full 4GB (3.9-3.95), forgot
the exact value.

-- 
Francois Tigeot


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