ecc

kain666 · 12 Jan 2011 at 09:23

new board supports ecc ram.
would ecc ram make a diffrence on a board used as a desktop?

mrfil13 · 12 Jan 2011 at 17:25

ECC is error correction and its main use for servers where errors are much more of a problem than on a desktop pc.

Software crashes on a desktop and takes the OS with it, reboot, does the same on a server and you have a lot of ticked off users/clients.

kain666 · 2 Feb 2011 at 12:49

mrfil13 said:
ECC is error correction and its main use for servers where errors are much more of a problem than on a desktop pc.

Software crashes on a desktop and takes the OS with it, reboot, does the same on a server and you have a lot of ticked off users/clients.

so no diffrence??

Thejay · 2 Feb 2011 at 13:13

Go take a look at the price of ECC memory and see if you think it's worth considering

geuben · 2 Feb 2011 at 13:15

I don't think most desktop boards will accept ECC RAM.

edit: nevermind, I should have read the first line.