[CentOS] core 2 duo motherboards and centos 4

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Tue Jan 23 22:20:38 UTC 2007


Theo Band wrote:
> Ben Mohilef wrote:
>> Overclocking the E6600 worked with the Corsair 800Mz memory, locked up 
>> randomly under load with slower memory. 4GB is all the P5B Deluxe will 
>> take.   
> Funny, I was advised to buy a ASUS P5B-VM since I need 8MB memory.
> That would mean each of the 4 slots a 2GB DDR2 module. My local shop 
> suggests me to choose TWIN2XP2048-6400C4 (Corsair) but that are two 
> modules of each 1GB. I downloaded the ASUS manual and it tells that 8GB 
> memory is possible with 2GB modules but in the QVL only 1GB modules are 
> mentioned.
> 
> I did a quick search on the internet, but couldn't find any module sized 
> 2GB occupying a single DDR2 slot.
> 
> Background is that I want to have a motherboard that is capable of 8GB 
> for CAD applications but my feeling is that this is not the right board 
> to use.
> So is 8GB possible at all?

I suspect Tyan would have such a board, and you could find yourself 
using Xeon or Opteron.

Probably the Tier 1 vendors also have ready-to-run workstations, not 
necessarily IA32/AMD-64. IBM's pSeries would be worth a look.





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