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| Thread ID: 85566 | 2007-12-14 10:39:00 | ECC memory... worth it? | Myth (110) | Press F1 |
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| 621215 | 2007-12-14 10:39:00 | Just researching parts for a minor upgrade. IN regards to RAM, the motherboard I am looking at also supports ECC RAM. Is it worth getting? Possible RAM here (www.ascent.co.nz) Incidentally, why is ECC cheaper? |
Myth (110) | ||
| 621216 | 2007-12-14 14:40:00 | From personal experience at work, I'm telling you it's worth it...why is cheaper though? Maybe the modules in question (512) are not in demand.... |
georgeks (9122) | ||
| 621217 | 2007-12-14 18:51:00 | From personal experience ECC RAM is generally not worth the price premium over Non-ECC RAM. ECC RAM was good back when RAM chips weren't very reliable, nowadays RAM is very reliable and stable so unless it is going to be used in a critcal PC that you need to pretty much never crash then don't bother buying it. ECC RAM also generally performs about 2-3% worse than Non-ECC RAM due to the technology used to correct errors. That RAM is reasonably cheap so if you really want ECC RAM then by all means get it but in my book it is unessecary for a home user. I would personally go for 2x512MB of DDR2-800 Transcend RAM for around $43. www.pricespy.co.nz |
Mark Gribble (13074) | ||
| 621218 | 2007-12-15 02:20:00 | Incidentally, why is ECC cheaper? its not. its dearer. however cheap ECC may be cheaper than the top end non-ECC. ECC is not needed for home pc's, its really only required for critical aplications such as servers. if its cheap enough it might be worth getting if your running large apps (image processing etc) otherwise i wouldn't bother with it. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 621219 | 2007-12-15 02:39:00 | As I figured. Thanks for the comments :) | Myth (110) | ||
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