Question Can i use ECC REG RAM with desktop board?

[olodar]

Hi there,

Can i use ECC REG RAM on desktop motherboard, for example, GA-H61M-DS2 . In the specifications of this mboard written: Support for non-ECC memory modules, but memory controller integrated in to CPU and Xeon E3 1220 v2 supports ECC RAM: ECC Memory Supported - yes, so can can i do it? And if can't, why? After all memory managing CPU, not motherboard.

P.S. most 1155 motherboards (excluding some workstation's mboards) working well with Xeons even without flashing BIOS.

Regards, Paul.

 

[Calvin7]

GA-H61M-DS2 does not support the use of Registered memory.
GA-H61M-DS2 has support for non-ECC unbuffered memory modules.
Support for DDR3 1333/1066/800 MHz memory modules

 

[olodar]

GA-H61M-DS2 does not support the use of Registered memory.
GA-H61M-DS2 has support for non-ECC unbuffered memory modules.
Support for DDR3 1333/1066/800 MHz memory modules

This is just theory. In theory this board also don't support Xeons, but it is working well.

 

[Mr.Spock]

It may support ECC but:

ECC <> registered, example many Dells support ECC U-DIMM not R-DIMM
registered => ECC, not the other way around

Hi there,

Can i use ECC REG RAM on desktop motherboard, for example, GA-H61M-DS2 . In the specifications of this mboard written: Support for non-ECC memory modules, but memory controller integrated in to CPU and Xeon E3 1220 v2 supports ECC RAM: ECC Memory Supported - yes, so can can i do it? And if can't, why? After all memory managing CPU, not motherboard.

P.S. most 1155 motherboards (excluding some workstation's mboards) working well with Xeons even without flashing BIOS.

Regards, Paul.