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wouldn't a 5100-based board allow you to avoid the premium of fbdimms?<br>
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May be I am wrong but I saw only FB-DIMMs options and assumed that we need<br>
to wait for Nehalems for DDR3?<br>
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5100+ddr2 is perfectly viable. fbdimms, after all, just a wrapper/extender<br>
that introduces more latency with the claim of higher capacity (they contain<br>
ddr2 or ddr3 inside the memory-buffer interface.)<br>
</blockquote><div><br><br>Some info re specific motherboards with Intel 5400 chip set that support DDR2 would be very welcome.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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but yes, if possible, I would wait for nehalem. unfortunately, it's hard to guess when nehalem will actually ship for servers - recent rumors claim an early release, but I can't guess whether this is only for uni-socket machines or not.</blockquote>
<div><br>Can not wait - have to spend the money till the end of September.<br><br></div></div></div>