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ECC and non-ECC RDRAM together?

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Gustavus

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My wife has Dell computer that uses RDRAM. It is critically short of memory for modern applications and as you undoubtably know RDRAM is very expensive. I have a chance to get one stick of ECC and one stick of non-ECC -- both Samsung with the same specs -- and am wondering if they will play together with the ECC turned off in her computer. The memory in the computer at present is non-ECC so I know that is OK, but the question is if I disable ECC will the ECC stick and the non-ECC stick work together. It takes two sticks of RDRAM and this is the first time I have had a good chance to get her enough memory for current applications.

Thanks for your help
 
Thanks John. You answered with such confidence I am going to get the two sticks and try to upgrade her machine. I have installed RAM Saver which shows a small icon in the tray with the free memory shown and frequently it gets down to a few tens of Kilobytes -- in other words almost out of memory.
 
Originally posted by: Gustavus
Thanks John. You answered with such confidence I am going to get the two sticks and try to upgrade her machine.
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Yeah. But John also predicted the end of the world for October 3, 1997 and world peace for the 21st Century. 😛
 
Originally posted by: RebateMonger
Originally posted by: Gustavus
Thanks John. You answered with such confidence I am going to get the two sticks and try to upgrade her machine.
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Yeah. But John also predicted the end of the world for October 3, 1997 and world peace for the 21st Century. 😛
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Yep and he was wrong.
 
What was he wrong on?

There is world peace,
you can use ecc ram,
and the world did end on or around oct 3rd 1997
 
I'd say maybe. Some motherboards are pickier than others. If the two additional pieces were matching styles, I'd say the chances of having an issue would be less.

I had a RDRam board that would not work with a mix, but would work with either type individually.
 
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