ECC or NON ECC Ram?

Anonymous — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 16:39:51 GMT

If I get the Mac what should I go with

Re: ECC or NON ECC Ram?

James Murray — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 17:08:55 GMT

I put "ECC or non-ECC" in Google. Summary of findings:

• ECC has an extra chip on the board that checks for errors on the fly.

• This gives slightly more reliable memory at a performance cost of about 2%.

• Regular memory is plenty reliable for the most part; ECC is recommended for servers and 'computation intensive' applications. I don't know if we would include AC modeling and rendering under this 'intensive' heading, but I tend to doubt it. It sounds like it's designed to lessen the chance of the machine crashing, where a crashed machine would be very bad.

• The extra cost of ECC on a 1GB stick at Crucial is $6. I.e., 0.

• You cannot mix the types.

So far, I'm leaning heavily towards 'NON'.

Re: ECC or NON ECC Ram?

TomWaltz — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 17:58:38 GMT

Ramjet explains that ECC is really more for file servers than workstations.

I ordered non-ECC in my new Quad G5.

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