[OpenIndiana-discuss] i7 cpu that accepts ECC Ram

[Reginald Beardsley]

FWIW the HP Z400 series workstations support ECC and you can find good deals on them both on HP's refurb site and on eBay. They are certified for Solaris, so OI should not have an issue.  

I bought a Z400 w/ quad core 3.2 GHz Xeon processor, 8 GB ECC DRAM, nVidia FX1800 and 500 GB of disk for ~$1100 US in January 2011 on eBay.  They are very nicely built. I'm still running Solaris 10 U8 on that system.


Have Fun!
Reg

--- On Fri, 2/1/13, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> wrote:

> From: Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com>
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] i7 cpu that accepts ECC Ram
> To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> Date: Friday, February 1, 2013, 10:23 AM
> Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us>
> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > If you are not dead-set on having an an i7 CPU, then
> there are many
> > more options.  SuperMicro makes some nice
> motherboards which work with
> > Xeon CPUs and support ECC memory and built-in
> audio.  These
> > motherboards are basically server-class motherboards
> with
> > "workstation" options.  These run VirtualBox very
> well.
> >
> > Here are some examples.  I think that OpenIndiana
> should work on all
> > three:
> >
> > http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9SRA.cfm
> >
> > http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9DAL-i.cfm
> >
> > http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9DAi.cfm
> 
> Thanks for the helpful input.
> 
> Looking at specs and trying to imagine a working home system
> seems to
> throw my pea brain into 'flight of fight' syndrome and it
> mostly
> freezes. Probably due to a horribly weak background in comp
> tech.
> 
> I don't notice any mention of graphics while paging round
> those sites
> and linked sites.
> 
> Do server platforms generally not have graphics or is it
> just inserted
> into a slot somewhere?  or what?
> 
> 
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