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Mark Haney posted <4396F72B.7080701@××××××××××××.org>, excerpted below, |
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on Wed, 07 Dec 2005 09:52:27 -0500: |
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> Gavin Seddon wrote: |
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>>Hi, |
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>>I have decided to put 2 * 1Gig cards in my box. Will Gentoo accept this |
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>>immediately? |
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> I have 2GB in my system and Gentoo uses it fine, Stage1 compile no |
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> problems. |
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As mentioned elsewhere, the question is what your mobo/CPU(s) support(s). |
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Note in particular that many AMD64 chips require registered memory, which |
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is significantly more expensive than unregistered memory. A few of the |
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newer CPUs eliminate this requirement, but I haven't been tracking close |
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enough to know if they've actually shipped yet or when they started, if so. |
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In any case, be sure to check whether your system requires registered |
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memory or not, and be sure to get registered memory, if it does, because |
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if you don't, it /won't/ work, tho due to the hardware requirements, |
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nothing to do with Gentoo or Linux. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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