Ddr2 Non-ECC with ECC ram on G33M

[saxevil]

Hello, i have an gigabyte g33m-ds2r MB with 4Gb Ram and i found cheap 4gb ram but it says is not ECC and my 4gb installed are ECC. Can be a problem? Both of them are 800mhz Pc2-6400.
I try lo read a lot of this but its hard to me learn about memories. Thanks

 

[velocityg4]

Sometimes you can mix the two. Sometimes you can't. Save yourself the headache and just get ECC memory. You can get used ECC memory dirt cheap on eBay. You can find 4GB and 8GB DDR2 kits for $10 including shipping. You're lucky your board supports ECC memory. It is so much cheaper on average. Because it gets pulled from used Enterprise equipment. The market is flooded and there is little demand. I recently threw out a pile of 1GB modules because it wasn't worth the effort to sell.

SK Hynix, Micron (crucial), Samsung and Toshiba are all good brands. Those are what you'll usually find. As they are the only RAM manufacturers. The likes of Dell, HP, &c buy directly from them. All those other brands you see just rebrand the memory and oftentimes overclock it.

 

[saxevil]

Sometimes you can mix the two. Sometimes you can't. Save yourself the headache and just get ECC memory. You can get used ECC memory dirt cheap on eBay. You can find 4GB and 8GB DDR2 kits for $10 including shipping. You're lucky your board supports ECC memory. It is so much cheaper on average. Because it gets pulled from used Enterprise equipment. The market is flooded and there is little demand. I recently threw out a pile of 1GB modules because it wasn't worth the effort to sell.

SK Hynix, Micron (crucial), Samsung and Toshiba are all good brands. Those are what you'll usually find. As they are the only RAM manufacturers. The likes of Dell, HP, &c buy directly from them. All those other brands you see just rebrand the memory and oftentimes overclock it.

Finally i bought a new ECC samsung 2gb 800mhz memories, thanks for the info