This ASUS board seems to support ECC: http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/PID-MX23640(ME).aspx
http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/PID-MX23640(ME).aspxI think all AMD CPUs, even low-end ones, support it via the on-chip memory controller (unlike Intel); I don't know what it takes, if anything, to support ECC on the motherboard if the CPU/memory-controller does. Anyway, they don't seem to be hard to find in the AMD arena.
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Trevor Cordes trevor@tecnopolis.cawrote:
I'm really late to this discussion. Some quick 2c's:
On 2010-02-18 Daryl F wrote:
I think non-ECC memory should be illegal. Somebody's gonna lose an eye and it won't be funny any more.
Hear hear! Considering ECC RAM sticks cost just a small fraction more to make than non-ECC, and same with mobos(/cpus) that support ECC, why everything isn't ECC is beyond me. If everything was ECC, economies of scale would kick in and the additional cost would be negligible. Consider back in the 440BX days every board supported ECC, it boggles the mind as to why today you must buy server/workstation (and I mean $300 a mobo workstation) class equipment to get ECC. The 975 was the last "mainstream" (albeit "extreme enthusiast mainstream") Intel chipset with ECC. AMD fares no better. WTF??
2 of my 3 systems are ECC, and the 3rd is mostly just used for games.
On 2010-02-19 Kevin McGregor wrote:
While we're on the topic, what sort of desktop-PC motherboards are available that support ECC memory? I've never really paid attention, so for all I know, ECC support is common.
Ha! As per above, no Intel/AMD desktop boards have ECC. It's sad.
On 2010-02-19 Kevin McGregor wrote:
Kingston ValueRAM 4GB PC3-10600 DDR3 SDRAM ECC Kit (2 x 2GB)...or $40/GB at Memory Express (special order, though). Is that reasonable? Do people generally trust Kingston for RAM?
It's not the RAM that's the issue, it's finding a mobo to run it. And I trust Kingston implicitly. I have sold nothing but Kingston RAM since 2001. We're talking thousands of sticks here. I've had only about 5 RMA's in that time, and those probably due to static discharge.
I would never sell no-name sticks again. Beware the peddlers of "name brand" RAM where they are claiming the name of the DRAM manufacturer is the name brand of the stick. Those are crap no-name sticks. "Name brand" means Kingston, or OCZ, or Corsair, or similar actual branded stick (not back-of-truck leftovers from China).
On 2010-02-19 Sean Walberg wrote:
An interesting article about Kingston flash memory and quality, or lack thereof.
Don't attribute flash quality to DRAM quality. Most flash, including Kingston's carries only a short (1 year) warranty and is a completely different beast than DRAM. That said, I've sold (and used) a number of Kingston flash without issues. YMMV.
On 2010-02-19 Sean Cody wrote:
Picked up a pile of drives from CBIT last year and 25% of them were from Thailand and their warranty's were not honoured outside of Asia/Pacific. Now we do warranty lookups on every drive we order.
Ah, the Primex curse strikes again. I have yet to receive any counterfeit parts through my distro channels. Since I service all I sell, I would know if drives were gray-market/non-RMAable. If you want guaranteed product at in general better prices than Primex^H^H^H^H^H^H CBIT, let me know.
Ah, that reminds me of the bad ol' days when the guys at Primex were in the back room putting NEC stickers on no-name TW crap CRT's... _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.mb.ca http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable