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