I think you all might find this useful: http://www.short-media.com/review.php?r=247 Peter Arremann wrote: >On Wednesday 28 December 2005 20:22, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > > >>It's not the mainboard. It's the processor. >> >>The memory controller is on the _CPU_, _not_ the mainboard or >>its chipsets. There are literally 368 traces on a >>Socket-939/940 mainboard to its DIMMs -- 2 sets of 184-pin >>DDR. >> >>AMD Socket-939 uses Unregistered >>AMD Socket-940 uses Registered >> >>AMD Athlon 64 are configured to use non-ECC >>AMD Opteron are configured to use non-ECC or ECC >> >> > >Wrong. Several higher end boards for socket 939 chipsets can enable ECC. >The only difference between Athlon64 and Opterons (940, not 939) is the >registered part. > >MSI K8N Diamond Plus (manual page 3-11 for enabling ECC) >ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe - QVL and spec sheet list both ECC and non ECC. >AMD Athlon64 spec sheet lists that both ECC and non-ECC modules are supported. > >Most low end boards do not have a way to enable ECC. Many don't work if you >insert ECC modules. Most higher end socket 939 boards allow you to use ECC > >Peter. >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >