[OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC

[Geoff Flarity]

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Ivar Janmaat <ijanmaat at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> The AMD FX 8150 (8 core) in combination with a ASUS Crasshair V (has Intel
> networkinterface) might be interesting for you.
> The 8 GB unbuffered ddr3 dimms are hard to get and expensive.
> Maybe start with 16 GB en upgrade later?

Stay away from AMD if you're hoping to use this system with KVM.
There's no AMD support yet, and who knows when there will be.


> Ivar
>
> Robin Axelsson schreef:
>
>> If you are considering AMD hardware, most 990FX motherboards support both
>> ECC and up to 32GB of memory. They also have support for IOMMU.
>>
>> I can confirm that for example the Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD7 supports all of
>> the above. I can also recall that I have seen screenshots of ECC options in
>> one of the BIOS/UEFI menus of an ASUS Crosshair V / Sabertooth motherboard.
>>
>> I'm not 100% sure if the 990FX chipset will work on OI. I will know by the
>> end of next week and can confirm this once I have migrated my system to this
>> motherboard. In the meanwhile I can confirm that motherboards with the 790FX
>> and the 890FX chipsets work fine with OpenIndiana and OpenSolaris.
>>
>> Robin.
>>
>>
>
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