Do LGA775 Xeons need ECC memory?

[hardtofindinthefuture]

Title says it all.

[NoxiousOdor]

They don't need it but they are recommended if you are going to use them in a server application

[hardtofindinthefuture]

Just now, WhisperingKnickers said:

They don't need it but they are recommended if you are going to use them in a server application

so if i would use it for lets say gaming it would work with just standard DDR2

[NoxiousOdor]

Just now, v0nn_toaster said:

so if i would use it for lets say gaming it would work with just standard DDR2

Depends on your motherboard sometimes but I would say 90% of the time it would be fine, the only time you really actually need ecc is if you have a multi socket board. There are exceptions to that as well but generally speaking at least

[hardtofindinthefuture]

1 minute ago, WhisperingKnickers said:

Depends on your motherboard sometimes but I would say 90% of the time it would be fine, the only time you really actually need ecc is if you have a multi socket board. There are exceptions to that as well but generally speaking at least

So if i used a board that was made by Asus, Asrock, dell, hp etc i wouldnt need ECC

[NumLock21]

Socket 775 Xeon don't use ECC. The ones that does are socket 771 and the rams are actually FB-DIMMs.

 

[grimreeper132]

depends what you are doing with them, if it is just for normal desktop use then no, for server use it is recommended especially if it's being used for something like a NAS. But it's not needed

[SupaKomputa]

21 minutes ago, v0nn_toaster said:

so if i would use it for lets say gaming it would work with just standard DDR2

Yes a standard ddr2 will work for just gaming.

you don't need ecc to run the cpu.