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unbuffered ecc. why?

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darckhart

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was looking around but couldn't find a good answer.

what on earth is the point of unbuffered ecc?

please leave all the money-related replies out. i'm just curious about the performance/reliability aspects.

thanks for clearing it up!
 
Short answers: ecc vs. non-ecc is about the reliability of your RAM and whether or not you mind cosmic rays (and other more likely things like normal component degradation) having a chance of crashing a program or your system.

buffered vs non-buffered is a question of how many sticks you want to be able to stick on a motherboard. The buffering lowers the electrical load on the memory controller making it possible to put many more sticks on the same bus. Desktop board - no buffering needed, server/workstation boards - buffering needed for more than X sticks. X to be determined by the manuf. of said board/chipset.
 
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