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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!news.moneng.mei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HELP: Can I mix memory speeds Date: 17 Jul 1996 11:39:17 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4sijd5$3tl@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4rbvq2$34i@news.enterprise.net> <4si1tu$85r@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.hardware:44810 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:23849 nate@coos.Dartmouth.EDU (Nathan K. Edel) wrote: > Many modern motherboards don't support parity at all [...] They are already old again. :-) > If you need reliability, move up to ECC -- parity isn't that great. Alas, it costs more effort. According to Rod Grimes, the ECC feature of the T*ton II chipset costs 10 ... 15 % of the memory bandwith. (I'm using it nevertheless.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)