Is ECC memory any use?
Timothy Murphy
tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Sun Dec 9 17:57:02 UTC 2007
Chris Snook wrote:
>> I'm getting memory for a very old (P2B-LS) Asus motherboard,
>> and I see I can get ECC memory for some 20% more.
>>
>> Is there any point in getting this?
> Depends who's buying. Few people do anything on "personal" systems that
> really
> justifies ECC RAM, though I'm sure the exceptions are probably on this
> list.
I decided in the end to go with ECC,
even though as you say it is probably completely unnecessary in my case.
But the cost difference was negligible - $10 on 512MB, so I went for it.
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