[SOLVED] xeon with ddr3 1600

[mrizkhan20]

my mobo is gigabyte h55m-s2v
it support xeon x3450 processor..
it is 4 core 8 thread processor.. its very cheap in ebay.. but it will work with normal ddr3 1600 ram? i know its server cpu.. and what is ecc ram?? an other thing is xeon x3450 is a dual socket processor??

 

[william p]

ECC RAM is Error Correcting Code. It's very important in technical computing such as medical or engineering, but not used in gaming or internet, word processing type use. So the Xeons must support it. The Gigabyte MB may or may not. If it does there should be an option in the BIOS. Many MB just ignore the ECC logic chip and run them as normal RAM. Any Xeon that has a 3 as the first digit is single CPU, a 5 there is 2 cpu, and a 7 there is "multiple" CPU.
Here are some builds for that MB with Xeons running there.
https://www.userbenchmark.com/System/Gigabyte-GA-H55M-S2V/4557
The safe RAM bet is to use RAM that's listed as compatable with the MB. Safe CPU bet is update your BIOS and run a CPU that someone else has running on that MB.