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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
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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. ;-)