On 7 Jan, David O'Brien wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:01:57AM -0800, Don Lewis wrote: >> As I mentioned before, for the Athlon XP, >> look for boards with the AMD-761 chipset. They are getting rare and >> don't support the latest Athlon XP's, but some are still available. The >> Asus board doesn't support ECC, though. > > I don't follow. The Asus A7M266-D is AMD-761 based and does support ECC > RAM. I was referring to the A7M266 uniprocessor board, which Asus specifically says does not support ECC RAM. It was the only AMD-761 ATX motherboard that I found that does not support ECC, which suprised the heck out of me when I was shopping for a motherboard for my Athlon XP system. These boards still listed on pricewatch.com. The A7M266-D dual processor board is considerably more expensive. >> Most of the AMD 64 boards support ECC, but are pricey. > > Only 1/2. The Athlon64 boards (ie, socket 754) can't use ECC RAM. > Only Opteron boards will. I just looked at the specification page for the Asus K8V Deluxe, which is a socket 754 board with the Via K8T800, and it says: 3 x 184-pin DIMM Sockets support max. 3GB un-buffered ECC and non-ECC PC3200/PC2700/PC2100 DDR SDRAM memory. and the BIOS chapter in the manual has a section for the ECC configuration screen.Received on Wed Jan 07 2004 - 15:00:33 UTC
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