Ram

On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 23:23:04 +0100, Paul Bassman wrote:

The prize go's to General Schvantzkoph whose explanation has made me happy,
so much so, I now want registered ram! I found your explanation very easy to
understand. Many thanks to everyone else who took the time to explain, which
I found very helpful. Thanks again Paul.



Your welcome

On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 23:23:04 +0100, Paul Bassman wrote:

The prize go's to General Schvantzkoph whose explanation has made me
happy, so much so, I now want registered ram! I found your explanation
very easy to understand. Many thanks to everyone else who took the time to
explain, which I found very helpful. Thanks again Paul.

For best performance you should buy your RAM as two identical model sticks
of equal size. This will enable you to make use of the dual channel
memory controller. I know some RAM makers sell what they call matched
pairs, but it seems to me very unlikely they'd offer a significant
performance boost. Or, in fact, any at all.

--
Ian.

EOM

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 23:54:04 +0100, Ian Hastie
wrote:

On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 23:23:04 +0100, Paul Bassman wrote:

The prize go's to General Schvantzkoph whose explanation has made me
happy, so much so, I now want registered ram! I found your explanation
very easy to understand. Many thanks to everyone else who took the time to
explain, which I found very helpful. Thanks again Paul.

For best performance you should buy your RAM as two identical model sticks
of equal size. This will enable you to make use of the dual channel
memory controller. I know some RAM makers sell what they call matched
pairs, but it seems to me very unlikely they'd offer a significant
performance boost. Or, in fact, any at all.

A matched set implies that one stick won't crap out significantly
earlier than the other if you attempt the highest overclock your
system is capable of. In some cases of poor motherboard/ram
compatibility it might mean whether your computer runs reliably or
not.

Although you should be able to get two matched singles ram sticks
through most distribution channels when buying at the same time,
don't underestimate the ability of your local vendor to $crew things
up.

"Jason" == Jason Cothran writes:

Jason Yes, but unbuffered ECC is very very hard to find and likely
Jason more expensive (due to its rarity) than registered ECC. 99% of
Jason the time, when you see ECC ram it is registered.

Not true at all. Kingston makes unbuffered DDR 3200 ECC ram that costs
less or about the same price as non-ECC ram.

Really some of the super non-ECC DDR ram with the cool expansion
coolers is really expensive ;-). However, you probably won't see much
performance difference but you your system will really look cool!

Most systems use non-ECC ram.

Does it really make much difference these days weather you use ECC or
non-ECC. That's if your system can use both?

Later,

Alan

"Post Replies Here Please" wrote in message
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| "Jason" == Jason Cothran writes:
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| Jason Yes, but unbuffered ECC is very very hard to find and likely
| Jason more expensive (due to its rarity) than registered ECC. 99% of
| Jason the time, when you see ECC ram it is registered.
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| Not true at all. Kingston makes unbuffered DDR 3200 ECC ram that costs
| less or about the same price as non-ECC ram.
|

I guess I stand corrected then, but I have never seen any at any of the my
wholesalers, so I assumed it wasn't made in mass quantities.

Post Replies Here Please wrote in
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"Jason" == Jason Cothran writes:

Jason Yes, but unbuffered ECC is very very hard to find and
likely Jason more expensive (due to its rarity) than registered
ECC. 99% of Jason the time, when you see ECC ram it is
registered.

Not true at all. Kingston makes unbuffered DDR 3200 ECC ram that
costs less or about the same price as non-ECC ram.

Really some of the super non-ECC DDR ram with the cool expansion
coolers is really expensive ;-). However, you probably won't see
much performance difference but you your system will really look
cool!

Most systems use non-ECC ram.

Does it really make much difference these days weather you use ECC
or non-ECC. That's if your system can use both?

YES! I use ONLY RAM labelled "Special Sale" or "Huge rebate"!

When I installed my MB I got two 512 sticks of DDR3200 ram in whatever
Fry's had that was cheap, it's worked perfectly. I've heard some have
had problems with the ASUS K8V and RAM, try getting whatever is cheap,
it'll work! G