Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 at 4:56pm, Thomas Dodd wrote
>Know which ones, if any, currently can? AMD, Nvidia, or VIA?
>Why would they release a chip that couldn't?
In my (limited) experience, I've only "lost" significant chunks of memory
on Tyan boards. Here are the results of 'free' on two systems with 4GB of
RAM installed:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3688032 3258792 429240 0 105380 2519000
-/+ buffers/cache: 634412 3053620
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 4012172 3476620 535552 0 67296 2975540
-/+ buffers/cache: 433784 3578388
The first system is dual Athlon MPs on a Tyan S2466. The second is
dual Xeons on a Supermicro P4DPE. For good measure, here's free from a
Which chipsets are those? Not familiar with the individual boards,
especially not ones for Intel CPUs.
dual Opteron system with 8GB installed:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 8070688 444488 7626200 0 99488 148820
-/+ buffers/cache: 196180 7874508
That's the Arima/Rioworks HDAMA motherboard. Given my past experiences
with Tyan and AMD chipsets (read: S2460 *shudder*), I specifically
requested that my vendor *not* use the Tyan MB in my Opteron systems.
So what chipset does that board use? I though all the early K8 boards
used AMD chipsets. Anyone no more about the other K8 boards?
Especially workstation boards (dual opteron with AGP).
-Thomas