ecc or non ecc with SDRAM what is the difference?

[Guest]

What is ECC and is it important to have when buying SDRAM PC100. I have a Emachine that is a year old and I need some memory for it, I currently have only 32mb.

 

[Arrow]

You'd want ECC RAM in a server performing important tasks and calculations, but for typical users, it's not required. Your system would probably (99.99% chance) use non-ECC RAM.

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[Guest]

What does it mean when it says 8x64, what is that in reference to?

 

[Grizely1]

ECC is Error Correction Code, it does just what it sounds like. If it finds a problem in the data it's running it will fix it! You don't need it though, it's only used in servers and stuff like that.

 

[lostinms]

64 is non ECC
72 is ECC memory.

 

[jg38141]

Also, since ther's extra work involved in error correcting, ecc ram will actually slow the average system down.

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