[geeks] sun ultra 24

[Shannon Hendrix]

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.



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