Question about ECC DRR RAM!

Sean · Post by **Sean** » Mon Nov 26, 2001 8:02 pm

Does it work with a NON ECC stick of DDR ram?

Has anyone got it working before?

THANKS!

Darkheart · Post by **Darkheart** » Tue Nov 27, 2001 5:09 am

It may work but if it does you get no benefit from it being ECC as to enable ECC you have to have all ECC RAM. As ECC is much more expensive than standard RAM I dunno why it would be worth mixing.

Darkheart

Sean · Post by **Sean** » Tue Nov 27, 2001 8:38 am

Well, I found a DDR ECC Crucial stick for 29$ shipped...Would there be a chance that it wouldn't work?

Darkheart · Post by **Darkheart** » Tue Nov 27, 2001 9:15 am

As long as your motherboard supports ECC DDR RAM you should be ok. Oh and bear in mind there is a mild performance hit for using ECC RAM as opposed to standard RAM.

Darkheart

Sean · Post by **Sean** » Tue Nov 27, 2001 9:14 pm

Do you know someone that successfully got an ecc stick and a non-ecc stick working together? I just want to make sure cause I am about to buy some...

(for 27$ shipped..)

Darkheart · Post by **Darkheart** » Tue Nov 27, 2001 10:27 pm

The only place I use ECC is in servers (usually with large amounts of RAM 1GB+) so no I've never tried mixing it. I am sure that if you use some ECC and some Non-ECC then the RAM will not be able to use the ECC fucntion. Wether ECC will happily work with non-ECC is something I've never needed to find out, sorry.

Darkheart

Sean · Post by **Sean** » Tue Nov 27, 2001 10:31 pm

Eck, I don't wanna use ECC, don't care for it..

I just wanted to make sure a non-ecc dimm would work with an ecc dimm...

Thanks for all your help.

Solo2 · Post by **Solo2** » Wed Nov 28, 2001 3:01 am

I have both ECC and non-ECC running mixed on a A7V, it all depends on your motherboard but most shouldnt have a problem.

Sean · Post by **Sean** » Wed Nov 28, 2001 8:02 am

Thanks!