Re: Related question: Athlon 64 vs. Opteron

[Karl Magdsick <kmagnum@gmail.com>]

>
> Also opterons work with registered memory which some people prefer since
> it allows more memory sockets in a system and is hence useful for
> servers.  The athlon64 of course can't use that, so it is limited to 2
> or 3 memory slots per channel.
>
> Len Sorensen
>

Speaking of different kinds of memory, I've heard that some bioses on
socket 939 motherboards have options to scan through ECC RAM and
correct errors before the errors exceed the limit of the error
correcting code used by the RAM.  Are any of you using these features?
 How would I go about finding out which bioses/motherboards support
such features?


Thanks,
-Karl