How to check if a CPU is ECC-capable?

[thewanted]

Hi all,

So I recently bought an Intel X3450 CPU from the MM but when I received it, I noticed that it was labelled as an "Engineering Sample". Whilst I'm not too bothered about this, something is troubling me.

I will only be plugging the CPU in this afternoon, but does anybody know how I can tell that it is ECC-capable? I am running a Supermicro X8SIL-F motherboard and 8GB of ECC RAM, however I need to know that this CPU does do ECC too.

Would the "SPD" tab in CPU-Z provide this info?

Thanks in advance.

 

[joxang]

I think the engineering sample should still be compatible with ECC memory.

In any case CPU-Z does provide the relevant info. In the output file, look for the 'memory corrections - yes/no' section. I can't remember where you can find it within the program tabs.

 

[thewanted]

Thanks very much I'll be sure to check the output file.

 

[Liquid]

it's a pre-production model but it should still have a full feature set, so you will be fine.

 

[thewanted]

I wasn't able to tell definitively that the CPU was running in ECC-mode, but the BIOS did pick up that the RAM was. Guess that'll just have to satisfy my curiosity.

The BIOS also wouldn't let me increase the multiplier. Damn

Thanks all.