ECC RAM

kadajawi

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I'm able to get some ECC PC100 256 MB RAM from HP. For around 40$. And I have a BX board. So this should work, eh? But are there any speed tradeoffs? Does ECC RAM works beside non-ECC RAM? Can I still activate ECC? Or should I get PC133 no-name RAM for about the same price? I've got a celeron system, so a FSB over 100 MHz doesn't interest me.
 
 

thorin

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Don't bother with ECC it's completely irrelevant in a home (non-server) environment. Yes there's a ever soooo slight speed penalty (error checking isn't free). You can mix ECC and non-ECC but then you can't use/activate ECC so why pay for it. Get the PC133.

Also there is no reason that you can't run your Celery past 100MHz FSB, unless your system is already hot/unstable or you just don't want to/have no reason to.

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kadajawi

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hmm, as I'm using a Celeron with 66 MHz FSB it is slightly unrealistic getting much over 100 MHz with it, eh? :) There is an advance of the HP ram. It comes from a BRAND and is slightly cheaper than the PC133 RAM. Means the HP one should have warranty etc. Well, actually this is a server environment. It actually is a webserver for my homepage (its pretty hard to get some free GOOD webspace in the internet). But stability isn't so important as in a real big server. Hmm... so I think I should only look at the price.