ECC on any *current* "home PC" Asus mobo?

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is ECC (parity memory) on any *current* "home PC"
Asus mobo?

if yes, kindly give some info

my interest would be with any of the current leading cpu's:
P4 or Athlon XP or Athlon 64

TIA, bill
 
willbill said:
is ECC (parity memory) on any *current* "home PC"
Asus mobo?

if yes, kindly give some info

my interest would be with any of the current leading cpu's:
P4 or Athlon XP or Athlon 64
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The Opteron chips, have the memory handling built into the processor core.
This also applies to the FX chips. The Opteron defaults to _requiring_ ECC
(normally won't even boot without it). Hence motherboards for these chips
support ECC. So a board like the SK8V, running a FX51, meet your
requirements.
Generally, ECC, costs a tiny amount on performance, and costs a little
extra, so many of the chipsets 'aimed' at the home market, don't offer this
option.

Best Wishes
 
The Opteron chips, have the memory handling built into the processor core.
This also applies to the FX chips. The Opteron defaults to _requiring_ ECC
(normally won't even boot without it). Hence motherboards for these chips
support ECC. So a board like the SK8V, running a FX51, meet your
requirements.
Generally, ECC, costs a tiny amount on performance, and costs a little
extra, so many of the chipsets 'aimed' at the home market, don't offer this
option.
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However the FX51, and probably the Opteron too, require that RAM to be
registered. The Athlon 64 also has an on chip memory controller, but
will also take unregistered RAM. Since registered RAM also leads to
increased latency, the Athlon 64 with unregistered ECC might be better.
It'd certainly be quite a bit cheaper. It all depends on how important
the FX51's dual channel memory controller is.
 
willbill said:
is ECC (parity memory) on any *current* "home PC"
Asus mobo?

if yes, kindly give some info

my interest would be with any of the current leading cpu's:
P4 or Athlon XP or Athlon 64
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The k8v (Athlon64) supports it, however make sure you don't buy registered
dimms with this board.

Boards for intel-systems with the 875-chipset also should support it (but
read the manual first).

Cheers,
Bernd
 
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