[gentoo-amd64] Re: 965 chipset and 2 DIMM slots will never give 4GB available? Is that correct?

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Evert <evert@poboxes.info> posted bifmu4-nhd.ln1@poboxes.info, excerpted
below, on  Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:04:11 +0200:

> Thank you for putting the whole problem in cleartext. I have forwarded
> your text to AOpen, hoping that even they understand it... ;-) (I
> understood the problem already, but it's not easy to get AOpen to see
> this/my point of view on the issue...)

Hopefully they can be made to see it. then. =8^)

FWIW, while they /are/ somewhat more expensive (being targeted at 
servers), I've been /very/ happy with Tyan.  They seem to have the best 
Linux support of any of the big board makers, even offering preconfigured 
lm_sensors.conf files in many cases (including mine), as well as 
certifying to Red Hat, SuSE, etc.  I was also quite surprised when well 
after I bought this board and after many manufacturers would be end-of-
life-ing their products, Tyan was still updating their BIOS firmware, and 
did so to provide dual-core support on this board and several others 
where they could, even tho the board had never been originally designed 
or marketed with that feature.  That was quite a pleasant surprise! =8^)  
OTOH, as I said, more expensive.  It's a dual-socket-940 Opteron system; 
a roughly $400 board.  Still, that's in line with what other makers were 
charging for similar at the time.

Anyway, altho I'll likely move back down-scale some at my next upgrade, 
it's quite likely that Tyan got a repeat customer.  I've been very happy 
with both the board itself and with Tyan's Linux support (altho there was 
a memory timing issue in the early BIOS versions that drove me crazy for 
awhile, given I had generic memory that wasn't quite stable at the 
labeled speeds; but they solved that nicely too; it just took a bit 
longer than I'd have liked, given I had the problem at the time).

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