[geeks] Via PC-1

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net>
>Date: 2008/03/06 Thu PM 03:34:32 CST
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Via PC-1

>On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 03:36:46PM -0600, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> >From: Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net>
>> >Date: 2008/03/06 Thu PM 01:56:00 CST
>> >To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>> >Subject: Re: [geeks] Via PC-1
>> 
>> >On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 01:18:55PM -0600, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> >
>> >> As for performance, it is quite snappy, esp. with the "unsupported" 2
>> >> Gig of RAM installed (I got 2 Gig of PC2-5300 for $60 locally). After
>> >> I tire of Windows Server 2008 on it (later tonight?), I plan to try
>> >> 64-bit Ubuntu and then WinXP before I go back to Solaris x64 and try
>> >> it again. 
>> >
>> >So that board supports just plugging in 2 gig sticks, or did you have to
>> >do something else first to make it accept that?
>> 
>> The board just worked with a single 2 Gig DIMM (which was suprisingly
>> hard to find, actually - it wasn't easy to find a single 2 Gig DIMM, I
>> could find lots of 2x 2Gig "kits" though). 
>
>Think we might get lucky and find that it supports a 4 gig stick?

No, I think 2 Gig is the max memory for the chipset I figure - I haven't looked into it yet... An item like that, a 4 Gig DIMM would get very pricey very fast (do they even make them?).