ECC memory on MSI X58 pro-e with Xeon X5650

[ILikeBigTree]

hi,

 

I'm planning on building a new budget Gaming PC with R9 290's in crossfire and an X5650, MSI x58 pro-e but I'm running out of budget and as we al know RAM prices are high so I started thinking that I could use some cheap ECC memory with my Xeon. so I want to know has anyone tried ECC memory on the MSI X58 pro-e because I know the Xeon will support it. I have seen somethings like: yea it supports it cuz the memory controller is in the CPU. but I also have seen that someone with a Xeon that tried ECC but didn't work.

 

I have found some cheap ECC ram 16GB (4 X 4GB), 28 euro (I'm from the Netherlands).

 

I would like a reply if you know anything.

[BubblyCharizard]

ECC ram can be hit and miss with xeons and consumer hardware

[Oscargot]

There's no information on the motherboard page, as is normal, and not too much around but I did find this forum post where somebody tried some ECC memory in this board to no avail: https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/x58-ecc-ram.2483375/

[ILikeBigTree]

I have been looking around and found some other motherboard and looked for other ram, I found some cheap 8GB consumer kits and as I read I have also been looking for unbufferd memory but was as expensive as consumer so I think that going to be my choice there.

 

thank you for helping me with this.

[ILikeBigTree]

I have also found a what I think is a better motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R don't know the price yet but the MSI pro-e was 65 euro what's really cheap for an X58 board 

[glitchmaster0001]

On 5/23/2017 at 6:55 AM, ILikeBigTree said:

hi,

 

I'm planning on building a new budget Gaming PC with R9 290's in crossfire and an X5650, MSI x58 pro-e but I'm running out of budget and as we al know RAM prices are high so I started thinking that I could use some cheap ECC memory with my Xeon. so I want to know has anyone tried ECC memory on the MSI X58 pro-e because I know the Xeon will support it. I have seen somethings like: yea it supports it cuz the memory controller is in the CPU. but I also have seen that someone with a Xeon that tried ECC but didn't work.

 

I have found some cheap ECC ram 16GB (4 X 4GB), 28 euro (I'm from the Netherlands).

 

I would like a reply if you know anything.

I would offer to sell you my old 12GB kit of DDR3 memory from my X58 setup but your in europe so yea.... 

[ILikeBigTree]

that's a nice offer but yea the distance, I sometimes wish I live in America or Canada cuz the prices here for new hardware are insane like al the parts are $50 more expensive for the most part there are even shops that sell a GTX 1080 for € 1.136,19 with free shipping I have seen them going for 100000 but only once it's overpriced AF same as memory (but that's everywhere) I got my old 8GB kit for 30 and now the same kit costs 70 and used server stuff is really cheap