Rambus question

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whattaguy

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I want to upgrade my ram, and noticed that I have the more expensive ECC RDRAM compared to the NON-ECC RDRAM. The price difference is actually quite large. Will I have problems if I mix the NON-ECC with the ECC? I've been reading as much as I could, but could not get a clear picture of this. The little that I do know is that ECC RAM is mainly used in high-importance applications like servers and such, and NON-ECC is mainly used for the home enthusiast, like me. If I can go NON-ECC I will purchase the RAM, otherwise it's a bit too expensive for me.

Shoulda went DDR.

Thanks in advance.

Christian
 
Ugh, you generally shouldn't do that because *generally* it doesn't work...but sometimes it does. I would maybe contact the manufacturer of the motherboard and see what they think about it.

Slackmaster 2000
 
Thanks Slackmaster,

I have an ASUS P4T533-C mobo. I'll see if I can contact them today.
 
Well, ASUS was of no help. So here's what I decided to do: Buy 1 gig of NonECC RDAM and sell 512 ECC on ebay. That's actually the cheapest way! Well, besides keeping my RAM the way it is. Thanks for all your help, though.
 
Good idear!

Now are you sure you need a full gig? Typically when you get up into memory sizes that large it is recommended to buy registered memory, which is typically also ECC. (in other words, the expensive stuff)

That's not to say that what you're doing won't work just fine....but make sure you buy from a good source - http://www.crucial.com . (good memory + good return policy, especially if you buy using their configurator) I'm only asking because adding memory above your requirements is a waste of money and can lead to system instability (which is lessened greatly by getting good memory).

Slackmaster 2000
 
Well, crucial doesn't make RDRAM's...at least that's what I've discovered...and ASUS pretty much has the least flaws with Samsung RDRAM. Many articles that test the ASUS boards use the Samsung stuff, so I feel pretty safe with that. I noticed, however, that a 512 stick costs considerably more than 2 256 sticks...why is that?
 
Because they have to cram twice the memory onto the same amount of space. Samsung should be just fine!

Slackmaster 2000
 
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