[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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Cheers
John
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