What does ECC Certified mean?

[James Bond]

I found some good ram:
http://www.shopatbuffalotech.com/cart/p...p?productid=16433&cat=42023&bestseller

It's MicronD9, but not ECC-Certified...what does that mean exactly?

 

[Diogenes2]

Originally posted by: Tizyler
I found some good ram:
http://www.shopatbuffalotech.com/cart/p...p?productid=16433&cat=42023&bestseller

It's MicronD9, but not ECC-Certified...what does that mean exactly?

ECC = Error Correcting Circuits

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_dete...n_and_correction#Error-correcting_code

Most enthusiest RAM is not going to be ECC .. You will usually find it
in server and other high availability environments .

 

[MarcVenice]

jup, ECC qaulified ram is for pc's that want to rule out any kind of data corruption. It's pretty safe to say you don't need it