AMD-64 large memory...

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 22:31 -0700, Maurice Hilarius wrote:
> Forrest Brewer wrote:
> For example 32GB?
> No problems.
> Used FC, Tyan S4882 board (AMD chipset)
> Something more modest?
> 16GB on S2892  AMD chipset)
> 16GB on S2891 (nVidia nForce4 chipset)
> 4GB on Tyan S2850, S2875, ASUS and MSI socket 939 board with VIA and 
> nForce chipsets.
> No issues.

If you go beyond 4GB, you want to be running on an EV6 platform (Athlon
[32] with 40-bit support in the BIOS, or any Athlon64/Opteron), and
_not_ any Intel GTL platform (not even AGTL+ LGA-775).

There is some major interconnect limitations with GTL.


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