[geeks] sun ultra 24

[Mark]

On 17 Oct 2007, at 16:29, Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> On Oct 17, 2007, at 3:38 AM, Mark wrote:
>
>> On 16 Oct 2007, at 20:59, nate at portents.com wrote:
>>
>>>> Those are both Extended-ATX form factor motherboards that won't
>>>> fit into
>>> standard desktop cases, they use LGA 771 (server) CPU sockets, the
>>> Greencreek (server) chipset, and FB-DIMMs (much higher latency,
>>> more power
>>> hungry than standard DDR2), all of which needs some pretty specific
>>> and
>>> dedicated cooling and comes at a higher cost.  (One of the big
>>> advantages
>>> that AMD still has over Intel in the server sector is that they can
>>> use
>>> standard DDR2 ECC modules thanks to their memory controller being
>>> built
>>> into each CPU, lowering the power profile of their server boards
>>> significantly while keeping memory latency down.)
>>
>> Fully Buffered memory offers greater reliability than ECC, which is
>> slightly better than standard (cacky desktop) RAM.
>
> Huh?
>
> FB and ECC are not in competition.
>
> My Mac has fully buffered ECC memory.

I meant purely ECC only RAM which is purely error-checking where as  
FB-DIMM RAM is fully buffered AND includes error checking. C'mon it  
was 8am ;)

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