View Single Post
Unread 05-08-2002, 11:43 PM   #11
jtroutma
Cooling Savant
 
jtroutma's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: SLO, CA
Posts: 837
Default

The only thing ECC memory is good for is in mission CRITICAL servers and dual Mother boards. The ECC is simmilar to the old Parity RAM modules from back when SIMMS were the thing to have

Technical side:

ECC memory is 72Bits wide instead of only 64bits. These extra bits act as testers on the RAM to see if errors are being generated. If a Motherboard with uses ECC memory detects an error, the BIOS is suppost to lock the machine immediately and give an ECC error message.

There is no reason to use ECC memory over Non-ECC memory unless the motherboard requires it for operation.

I could go into a more technical decription of how ECC is suppose to work vs. Non-ECC but I think I would bore all of you

Hope this helps
__________________
Athlon64 X2 4200+ @ 2.5Ghz (250FSB x 10)
OCZ VX 1GB 4000 @ 250FSB (6-2-2-2 timmings)
DFI LANParty nForce4 Ultra-D
SCSI Raid 5 x (3) Cheetah 15K HDDs
LSI Express 500 (128MB cache)
OCZ PowerStream 520W PSU
ATI X850XT PE (Stock)
DTEK WhiteWater + DTEK Custom Radiator
Eheim 1250
jtroutma is offline   Reply With Quote