On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:07:03AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > 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 :( There are "modern" Athlons for SMP boards: the MP 2800+ -- it is a "Barton" CPU with 512KB L2 cache. It is runs at 266FSB rather than 333 or 400 though.Received on Wed Jan 07 2004 - 14:49:58 UTC
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