Memory

[hardwarenewbie35]

What the difference between Registered and un-Registered memory?


Is ECC memory faster or non-ECC memory?

Thx.

 

[Persephone]

ECC stands for Error Checking and Correction. It is more expensive than non-ECC and is mainly used in servers and workstations (especially ones with a lot of memory). In a home system you probably will not need ECC memory since it will not give you any more performance than non-ECC (I've heard however that AMD FX-51 systems exclusively require ECC memory).

 

[Nohr]

If I recall, non-ECC memory is very slightly faster than it's ECC counterpart. It's nothing that's noticeable however.

 

[Breezie]

not many mobo support it right? just the 875 chipsets?