ECC RAM & Vista

[knightrous]

Having just read the latest THG article on Vista (http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/02/06/ecc_for_vista/) The discussion was based quite heavily on the use of ECC (Error Checking and Correction) RAM.

I've never really looked to far into ECC before, I always just looked for new low latency, reliable branded DDR400 RAM and bought it. (2Gb Corsair in my rig).

I was just wondering what other peoples opinions on this front of running high quality ECC over high-quality non-ECC ram.

 

[linux_0]

Most motherboards made do not support ECC.

Opteron 2xx and 8xx CPUs and boards require REG ECC.

AMD64 939 CPUs including Opteron 1xx models use unbuffered non-ECC DDR SDRAM.

 

[hergieburbur]

you should check out this topic. There are a lot more posts there.

 

[bgd73]

bump an old thread for a decent question.

I run the same generation of stuff as when vista came out, right now,and went from non-ecc to ecc, it is faster with ECC and ddr400, than non-ecc,and system memory consumption dropped 100mb for the same programs running. so, it is to say, they did realize ECC can work, apparently, and the safe approach is clearly backed off a bit with ecc in correct and detect mode.

and I memtest for ecc and non, For ECC installed the l2 cache speed dropped some and increased memory speed, proving a move to quicker on the memory side, in comparison to slower non-ecc, which had slower memory and faster l2 (it is a tricky thing to decipher)

Interesting ...worth a bump.

go ecc go...

 

[JohnRocks]

Thanks for updating me about ECC RAM & Vista.