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Question about Kingston memory ...

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iambenfal

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Can someone tell me whats the differences between these ram ??? Or just tell me whats the best one for heavy photoshop, after effects & games user....

KINGSTON KVR 400MHZ DDR NO-ECC__512MB__KIT 13903________$145.00
KINGSTON KVR 400MHZ DDR NO-ECC__512MB__C25 12055_______$179.00
KINGSTON KVR 400MHZ DDR ECC_____512MB__CL3A 16420______$185.00
 
Since no one reply, let me test my knowledge. Correct me if I am wrong. The Kit one probably means 2x256Mb, dual channel. The second one is has no ECC (error correction) but is with cas latency 2.5. The third one is with ECC and has cas latency of 3.
 
Moonsite - I think you're right about that, if I had to interpret those types of RAM I would believe the same thing.
 
Great thanks guys!
So the KINGSTON KVR 400MHZ DDR ECC_____512MB__CL3A 16420______$185.00 is the better one I guess...
 
Originally posted by: iambenfal
Great thanks guys!
So the KINGSTON KVR 400MHZ DDR ECC_____512MB__CL3A 16420______$185.00 is the better one I guess...
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Whoa dude, slow down. ECC may sound good, but it may not be the best for you. ECC is made for servers, non-ECC is accurate enough for everyone else while being faster. So before you hit the check-out button, why don't you tell us what you're using your system for and list the parts in your system. Peace.

Edit: I was thinking of SDR DRAM. The notches for an unbuffered stick were different from a registered stick.
 
Originally posted by: JSSheridan
Originally posted by: iambenfal
Great thanks guys!
So the KINGSTON KVR 400MHZ DDR ECC_____512MB__CL3A 16420______$185.00 is the better one I guess...
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Whoa dude, slow down. ECC may sound good, but it may not be the best for you. ECC is made for servers, non-ECC is accurate enough for everyone else while being faster. I don't think ECC will fit in a memory slot designed for non-ECC. So before you hit the check-out button, why don't you tell us what you're using your system for and list the parts in your system. Peace.
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I know of one 440zx board running 2x128MB pc100 ecc without issues...had a ecs k75sa(?) running a single crucial pc133 512MB ecc dimm as well..so..listing his setup/parts is spot on as usual.. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: JSSheridan
Originally posted by: iambenfal
Great thanks guys!
So the KINGSTON KVR 400MHZ DDR ECC_____512MB__CL3A 16420______$185.00 is the better one I guess...
Click to expand...
Whoa dude, slow down. ECC may sound good, but it may not be the best for you. ECC is made for servers, non-ECC is accurate enough for everyone else while being faster. I don't think ECC will fit in a memory slot designed for non-ECC. So before you hit the check-out button, why don't you tell us what you're using your system for and list the parts in your system. Peace.
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There is a fairly standard pinout spec for DDR SDRAM with ECC. So unless it is a particular brand- or model-specific DIMM, intended only for a certain server machine, he should be fine with ECC. The physical size/pinout is same/compatible with standard non-ECC DDR SDRAM DIMMs (184-pin). If the motherboard/chipset doesn't support ECC, then it will just go unused. The price difference is tiny. (But yes, if his chipset doesn't support it, the ECC features will go unused. ECC can also add a tiny bit of latency to memory, but most memory accesses these days are bursted cache-line reads or writes, so the performance "penalty" of using ECC is not even noticable.)

Frankly, with the amount of DRAM in modern systems, I'm really, really surprised that Intel hasn't mandated ECC support back in yet. I always used to run systems with ECC, never without, until I ended up with this AMD XP2000 and KT400 rig. I used to be running a PII-450 and i440BX rig with 2 x 256MB PC100 ECC SDRAM DIMMs.
 
Oh I see ...

This is for this:

Mobo: ASUS P4 S478 P4P800-SE 865SE 4D5P1A
Intel Pentium IV - 2.8GHz HT 512K S478-800
RAM: ?????
Video: ASUS GeForce4 Ti4200 - 128Mo
HD: IBM Deskstar 40Gb 7200rpm
 
i865 doesn't support ECC unfortunately, but even if you had an i875 I'd still go with the CL2.5/non-ECC 🙂
 
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