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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ECC-ram, it is worth it.
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 22:51:05
Message-Id: 53D8254E.5030606@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ECC-ram, it is worth it. by Frank Steinmetzger
1 Am 29.07.2014 20:18, schrieb Frank Steinmetzger:
2 > On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 11:00:26PM -0700, Edward MN wrote:
3 >> On 07/26/14 15:55, walt wrote:
4 >>> On 07/26/2014 10:39 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
5 >>>> [894019.770058] [Hardware Error]: MC4 Error (node 0): DRAM ECC error
6 >>>> detected on the NB.
7 >>>> […]
8 >>>> and this, my children, is why I am using ECC ram.
9 >>>> […]
10 >>>> And this evening, with a thunderstorm outside I got that beauty above...
11 >>> Is ECC memory a drop-in replacement for ordinary RAM, or does it need
12 >>> a special motherboard?
13 >>>
14 >> yeah, requires a motherboard that supports ECC ram.
15 > Big was my surprise to learn that our old Pentium 3 PC from 1999 has ECC
16 > support in its three RAM sockets. The problem today is the artificial
17 > paritioning of the market.
18 >
19 > It seems nigh impossible (at least in the Intel world, please correct me
20 > regarding AMD) to have ECC RAM in a normal Home PC these days, especially in
21 > an ITX form factor, as I am currently investigating. There are Xeons for the
22 > 1150 “consumer socket”, but ECC is only supported by server chipsets such as
23 > the C series. Those come either on ITX boards with abysmal I/O capabilities
24 > for home use or on high-power workstation ATX boards that cost a small
25 > fortune. *sigh*
26 >
27 > I would have liked the aspect of a system that tells me when something goes
28 > wrong, but there seems no such thing for my requirements. So I must help
29 > myself with file checksums when dealing with my archive disks.
30
31 I don't know about AMD's APUs but AFAIK all CPUs using the AM2/AM3
32 socket support it.

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