[SOLVED] ECC ram in desktop - for science!

[Quanticriver]

Good day to you fellow persons!

So i have been donated a 8GB DDR4 2133 ECC DIMM
03-608GB77D0
Synology
RAMEC2133DD-R4-8G

I was wondering if the ram would be usable in a desktop build

The internet gives a lot of conflicting info on the matter
I heard its very mobo dependable

Has anyone ever tried this/has experience with this?

IF it works can i mix with non ecc ram?

(I realize the ecc function will not work and that it will work slower then "regular" non ecc ram)

as always thank you for your efforts/answers

 

[jimmysmitty]

The CPU you pick would have to support ECC in order to even work. Most consumer CPUs do not support ECC.

Example, none of Intels consumer Core chips support ECC. Their Xeons do however.

AMD on the other hand does support ECC on consumer CPUs but it is not validated, by that it means they do not go through server grade testing. It works but its not something that is tested and 100% guaranteed to work like a server chip is.

 

[Quanticriver]

So it should be usable with amd cpu's
Do you reckon i can mix it with non ecc memory?

 

[jimmysmitty]

Per AMD yes it should work with any of their processors.

As to if it would work with non-ECC my best guess would be no since it operates differently since it has an additional chip to act as a parity bit. Regular RAM is basically eight bits per byte while ECC has a ninth bit for parity or better yet error checking and correcting.