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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ECC-ram, it is worth it.
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 16:34:10
Message-Id: 53D91E75.2010502@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ECC-ram, it is worth it. by Rich Freeman
1 Am 30.07.2014 13:25, schrieb Rich Freeman:
2 > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann
3 > <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote:
4 >> pretty easy actually. When I looked for ECC support, ALL Asus boards
5 >> supported it officially - and a whole bunch of Gigabyte boards according
6 >> to their forums.
7 >>
8 > Interesting, the Gigabyte board I'm using makes no mention of it.
9 > Just something that needs to be considered up-front.
10 >
11 > It is still a constraint though - if only 10% of the boards support
12 > ECC on the AMD side, then you're committing to an AMD CPU, and you may
13 > find it harder to find the other features you're looking for (number
14 > of RAM slots, PCI(e) ports, SATA ports, SLI/crossfire, clock control,
15 > good price, etc).
16 >
17 > Rich
18 >
19 >
20 Asus M5A99X Evo 2.0
21
22 had all I ever wanted. Plus something.
23
24 My old gigabyte does not mention ECC either. But the Gigabyte Forums
25 said yes.
26
27 Seriously, it looks like you guys are making excuses ...