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| 364910 | 2005-06-18 03:52:00 | I've been lookilg at second hand RAM on trade me and one of the listings said supports 'EEC' my dad looked in his motherboard book and his said that his supported it but i dont have a book with mine. What is EEC ? What does it do? and does my motherboard support it. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-6VEM(L) | HELPMEPLEASE3663 (8331) | ||
| 364911 | 2005-06-18 04:00:00 | ecc is basicly error correction. unless your running a server you don't need it, no need to pay extra for it. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 364912 | 2005-06-18 04:02:00 | I think that what is meant is "ECC". ;) Your board might support it. You don't really need it. It's used mostly on highly critical server applications. ECC involves extra bits added so that if a "temporary" read error occurs (alpha radiation?) it can be (i) detected, and (ii) corrected if it doesn't involve too many bits. EEC means Error Correction Code. Hardware calculates the values for the extra bits when writing, and checks them when reading. HP used it in the 2000 series of minicomputers about 30 years ago. It was their first use of 4kx1 semiconductor memory chips, and they were concerned about its reliability. Their implementation used 21 bits for each 16 bit word. That would detect and correct a one-bit error, and detect tw0-bit or more errors. |
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| 364913 | 2005-06-18 04:21:00 | Thanks for the help with that. I'm a real amateur at this so its not real important then.thanks. | HELPMEPLEASE3663 (8331) | ||
| 364914 | 2005-06-19 07:05:00 | Thanks for the help with that. I'm a real amateur at this. so ECC its not real important then.thanks. . | HELPMEPLEASE3663 (8331) | ||
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