From: Brian Stretch (email_suppressed_at_lugwash.org)
Date: Wed 15-Oct-2003 09:53:58 AM EDT
No, only Athlon FX 64's and Opterons require registered memory,
and that requirement for the FX 64's will go away when the 939
pin version comes out. Athlon 64's take unbuffered memory.
If you have to have dual channel ECC memory on the semi-cheap,
an ASUS SK8N nForce3 board, Opteron 14x series CPU, and as
many sticks of 1GB Corsair ECC Registered memory as you can
afford (the SK8N can take four) would be the way to go. The
2.2GHz Athlon 64 FX51 would be ideal, of course, but it's a wee
bit expensive.
-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Howard Zuckman <[e-mail suppressed]>
Sent: Oct 15, 2003 7:57 AM
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 [e-mail suppressed] wrote:
> > But short of the registered ECC memory designed for the 64bit AMD processors,
> > it's unclear to me if the memory manufacturers are making ECC for dual channel
> > use. Is that because with the slower access speeds of ECC, you can just
> > plop any two modules together and expect them to work in dual channel mode? Or
>
> yes, two matching dimms, either nonecc (called "by 64" or X64=64
> bits wide) or ecc registered (X72=72bits wide with buffer chips) are
> supported in dual channel mode. it is the memory controller that
> implements the error correction, the memory modules just have an ninth bit
> for every eight. these ecc dimms are the same as those used for
> an athlon64, an athlonfx51 or an opteron.
Aren't the athlon64 modules required to be "registered"?
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