ECC RAM & 64X2 motherboard question

Looking for advice. Getting lost with poor supplier specs.

Building a new PC. Performance needs not outrageous, but it'll do audio
production (on Linux), so future-proofing with dual cores seems sensible.

Have loads of ECC Reg DDR RAM lying about. AFAIK DDR means skt939 only,
but I can't find any info on ECC etc. Can I save myself the RAM cost
and use what I've got? If so, does anyone recommend a motherboard?

Gigabyte GA-K8U-939 seems to fit (minus any ECC details)
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/...ame=GA-K8U-939

Other reqs a
4x PCI slots (or 3 +onboard VGA, graphics quality very very unimportant)
4x SATA

Thanks for all help,
Ian

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:57:37 +0000, Ian M wrote:

Looking for advice. Getting lost with poor supplier specs.

Building a new PC. Performance needs not outrageous, but it'll do audio
production (on Linux), so future-proofing with dual cores seems sensible.

Have loads of ECC Reg DDR RAM lying about. AFAIK DDR means skt939 only,
but I can't find any info on ECC etc. Can I save myself the RAM cost
and use what I've got? If so, does anyone recommend a motherboard?

Gigabyte GA-K8U-939 seems to fit (minus any ECC details)
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/...ame=GA-K8U-939

Other reqs a
4x PCI slots (or 3 +onboard VGA, graphics quality very very unimportant)
4x SATA

Thanks for all help,
Ian

The 939 A64s use unbuffered RAM so your registered ECC RAM isn't going to
work. Opterons use registered ECC RAM but an Opteron system is going to be
substantially more expensive then a new AM2 or Core2 system even if you
take the cost of new DDR2 RAM that you are going to need.

General Schvantzkoph wrote:
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:57:37 +0000, Ian M wrote:

Looking for advice. Getting lost with poor supplier specs.

Building a new PC. Performance needs not outrageous, but it'll do audio
production (on Linux), so future-proofing with dual cores seems sensible.

Have loads of ECC Reg DDR RAM lying about. AFAIK DDR means skt939 only,
but I can't find any info on ECC etc. Can I save myself the RAM cost
and use what I've got? If so, does anyone recommend a motherboard?

Gigabyte GA-K8U-939 seems to fit (minus any ECC details)
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/...ame=GA-K8U-939

Other reqs a
4x PCI slots (or 3 +onboard VGA, graphics quality very very unimportant)
4x SATA

Thanks for all help,
Ian

The 939 A64s use unbuffered RAM so your registered ECC RAM isn't going to
work. Opterons use registered ECC RAM but an Opteron system is going to be
substantially more expensive then a new AM2 or Core2 system even if you
take the cost of new DDR2 RAM that you are going to need.

Ok. Thank you very much sir.

Ian

hi there what kind of ram you have laying around ? i need some ecc
for a server im building if you might be interested in selling some


On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:57:37 +0000, Ian M
wrote:

Looking for advice. Getting lost with poor supplier specs.

Building a new PC. Performance needs not outrageous, but it'll do audio
production (on Linux), so future-proofing with dual cores seems sensible.

Have loads of ECC Reg DDR RAM lying about. AFAIK DDR means skt939 only,
but I can't find any info on ECC etc. Can I save myself the RAM cost
and use what I've got? If so, does anyone recommend a motherboard?

Gigabyte GA-K8U-939 seems to fit (minus any ECC details)
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/...ame=GA-K8U-939

Other reqs a
4x PCI slots (or 3 +onboard VGA, graphics quality very very unimportant)
4x SATA

Thanks for all help,
Ian

mike6 wrote:
hi there what kind of ram you have laying around ? i need some ecc
for a server im building if you might be interested in selling some


Hi Mike6,

8x pc2100r-25331-2, 512MB, DDR, 266, CL2.5, ECC, REG
2x pc2-3200r-333-11-f0, 512MB
2x pc-133r-333-542-b2, 512MB, sync, 133MHz, CL3, ECC, Reg, SDRAM
2x pc-2700r-25331-j0, 1GB, DDR, 333, CL2.5, ECC, Reg
2x pc133r-333-542-aa, 128MB, sync, CL3, ECC, Reg

Let me know (to reply-to address) if it's of any use to you.

Good luck,
Ian

General Schvantzkoph wrote:
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:57:37 +0000, Ian M wrote:

Looking for advice. Getting lost with poor supplier specs.

Building a new PC. Performance needs not outrageous, but it'll do audio
production (on Linux), so future-proofing with dual cores seems sensible.

Have loads of ECC Reg DDR RAM lying about. AFAIK DDR means skt939 only,
but I can't find any info on ECC etc. Can I save myself the RAM cost
and use what I've got? If so, does anyone recommend a motherboard?

Gigabyte GA-K8U-939 seems to fit (minus any ECC details)

The 939 A64s use unbuffered RAM so your registered ECC RAM isn't going to
work. Opterons use registered ECC RAM but an Opteron system is going to be
substantially more expensive then a new AM2 or Core2 system even if you
take the cost of new DDR2 RAM that you are going to need.

Not entirely true. Registered RAM will work with a socket939 system if
it uses x8 DRAMs. Most of the high density DIMMs use x4 DRAMs which
definitely will not work. I have 4 1GB Samsung registered ECC DDR400
DIMMs in my socket939 system and they work fine, but that's because
they use x8 components.
--
-- Howard Chu
Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com
Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc
OpenLDAP Core Team http://www.openldap.org/project/