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I've never seen one, but I'm really wondering if there are
motherboards (consumer or low cost server) that can take more than
quantity 4 DDR2 common unbuffered 240 pin DIMMs?
Or is it known that any forthcoming chipsets / motherboards
will be able to take such a larger quantity of commodity
"desktop PC" 2GB DDR2 unbuffered, non-registered, non-ECC DIMMS?
I'd be glad to put 16GB or 32GB of 2GB DIMMs in such a system
if it existed, but it's completely not worth it financially if I have
to pay for ECC / registered / FB-DIMMS given the current costs
of the commodity unbuffered unregistered DDR2 DIMMs.
Given the cost of FB-DIMM or registered DIMMs I might as well just
build 2-4 C2D systems with 8GBy each rather than go with memory
that costs 2x or more as much in such quantity.
I'm sure ECC has its reliability benefits, but it's hard to argue with
$25/GBy prices for memory that works well enough for every
desktop PC out there.
Actually what they ought to have done is made COMMON desktop
PCs ALSO take only ECC/registered DIMMs given that 2-8GB is now typical
for the desktop which is really no different in quantity than most servers,
then it'd be cheap memory for everyone due to the high production volume. Sigh.
motherboards (consumer or low cost server) that can take more than
quantity 4 DDR2 common unbuffered 240 pin DIMMs?
Or is it known that any forthcoming chipsets / motherboards
will be able to take such a larger quantity of commodity
"desktop PC" 2GB DDR2 unbuffered, non-registered, non-ECC DIMMS?
I'd be glad to put 16GB or 32GB of 2GB DIMMs in such a system
if it existed, but it's completely not worth it financially if I have
to pay for ECC / registered / FB-DIMMS given the current costs
of the commodity unbuffered unregistered DDR2 DIMMs.
Given the cost of FB-DIMM or registered DIMMs I might as well just
build 2-4 C2D systems with 8GBy each rather than go with memory
that costs 2x or more as much in such quantity.
I'm sure ECC has its reliability benefits, but it's hard to argue with
$25/GBy prices for memory that works well enough for every
desktop PC out there.
Actually what they ought to have done is made COMMON desktop
PCs ALSO take only ECC/registered DIMMs given that 2-8GB is now typical
for the desktop which is really no different in quantity than most servers,
then it'd be cheap memory for everyone due to the high production volume. Sigh.