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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