PC Chips Motherboard M960G RAM

[Kyle W]

I'm thinking about buying this motherboard but newegg doesn't say exactly what kind of ram to put in it. I did a search on www.crucial.com/ and this is what they put.

184-pin DIMM Banking: 2 (2 banks of 1)
Chipset: SiS 661FX
DDR SDRAM Frequencies: PC2100, PC2700, and PC3200
Error Detection Support: Non-ECC only
Graphics Support: AGP 8X
Max Unbuffered DDR SDRAM: 2048MB
Module Types Supported: Unbuffered only
Supported DRAM Types: DDR SDRAM only
USB Support: 2.x Compliant

Now this is my first build and I dont know everything about RAM but my friend has told me to get registered ram because it runs cooler. I looked at about another 20 other boards on Crucial.com and all of them said the same thing. "Module Types Supported: Unbuffered only" and "Error Detection Support: Non-ECC only". Can I put a registered ram and ECC ram in this board? Will it ONLY take unbuffered and non-ECC ram? I emailed the boards company to see if they might help me but they haven't sent anything back. Any help would be great. Thank you

Also, can anyone tell me if this is a good first build board? Thank you again!

 

[Peter]

Welcome Kyle!

Well, it says right there that you can't, and the information is correct. While I couldn't find a "960G" on www.pcchips.com.tw (you sure the model name is correct?), the answer can be deducted generically. Boards with integrated graphics do not ever use ECC RAM (for performance reasons), and "registered" RAM is server/workstation technology you won't find supported in a consumer/notebook grade chipset.

 

[Kyle W]

This is the board page on PC Chips site. M960G V 3.0 Thank you for the answer to my question. It just kept bugging me.

 

[Peter]

Aha, brandnew, US site maintainer faster than Taiwan's. Thanks for the heads up.