On Tuesday 19 December 2006 07:00 am, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 08:47:33PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > Does this mean that when 4 GB sticks come out I can have 16 GB on my > > Athlon 3800+? > > Well every board I have seen so far says that you can only use up to > 2GB sticks, so I would say the answer is probably no. I don't actually > know what the maximum theoretical size of a DDR2 DIMM is (although > there certainly is one).
I haven't noticed any desktop-class motherboards that support larger than 2 GB DDR DIMMS. But I don't follow desktop-class hardware too closely. The Tyan Thunder K8S/K8SR/K8SD Pro (S2882) server boards that we have here (pushing two years old) support 4 GB ECC DDR DIMMs, giving a total of 32 GB RAM (8 slots) (not that we've put in more than 16 GB yet, 2 GB DIMMs are expensive enough). These are beautiful boards, using AMD and VIA chipsets that are fully supported by FreeBSD, Linux, and Windows XP/2K3. I have yet to find a nicer server board out there. -- Freddie Cash, LPIC-2 CCNT CCLP Network Support Technician School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
