On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 04:17:02PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Craig Sanders (cas@taz.net.au):
funnily enough, i have a similar reaction to most intel motherboards - their CPUs can be quite good, but the PCIe lines available and the I/O is minimal compared to AMD AM2/3/3+ CPUs and motherboards.
Here's a question that stumps me just a bit: Why are so many x86_64
i know this question wasn't actually addressed to me, but i just wanted to say that i'm quite interested in this conversation but unable to continue at the moment because i'm getting ready to go into hospital tomorrow - i expect to be in for about 10-14 days (having my right polycystic kidney removed...the left one was removed last year and weighed 6.5 Kg or about 1 stone in archaic units) i probably wont have internet access because dealing with the hospital's wifi authentication system (they come around with a daily changed password sometime in the mid-to-late afternoon, which stops working abruptly at midnight when the password is changed) is way more hassle than it's worth. in any case, i expect i shall be making use of the magic morphine-on-demand button (max 1 hit every 15 minutes) for the first day or two. so, anyway, sorry for dropping out of the convo so abruptly - it's been interesting and educational and has spurred me to do more reading and research than i really have time for right now :) the only detail i've managed to find about the mullins/beema memory controllers is that they're both single channel and support up to two dimms. AFAICT they're both also DDR3-L (low power variant of ddr3), which only seeems to be available in 1, 2, and 4GB sticks at the moment. so that may be the source of the 8GB limit. craig ps: i have warned my surgeon that if i cark it on the operating table, i'll turn on the spot and he'll have a zombie outbreak to deal with. (i promised the same thing last year and the very first thing i said to my partner when i woke up after surgery was "braaaaaainzzzz". fortunately she had left her katana at home) -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au> BOFH excuse #241: _Rosin_ core solder? But...