Re: FreeBSD Crashes with AMD

From: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor_at_gsoft.com.au>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 10:07:03 +1030
On Thursday 08 January 2004 09:53, David O'Brien wrote:
> > or so ago was very reasonably priced at the time and performs well.  My
> > suspicion is that the recent lack of ECC support may be due to AMD
> > wanting to move "serious" users over to their new 64 bit architecture.
>
> No, the problem is AMD isn't updating the 761 chipset to do 333 or 400
> FSB -- thus few want to use that chip set today.  AMD is not presureing
> VIA, ALI, nVidia, etc... to not produce ECC supporting motherboards.

Double negative? :)

It certainly irritates the crap out of me that you can't seem to buy an ECC 
board that will fit a modern Athlon in it :(

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