Can you put Ecc memory on a asus pt6 motherboard

[Nickinum]

My Friend game me so 24G of DDR-3 ecc memory I was wondering if i can use it in my asus P6T motherboard. 

 

 

[Windows7ge]

The motherboard manual states it only supports non-ECC memory but it is possible you could use the memory just that the ECC feature will be disabled. What CPU are you using? We can check if it supports ECC at all.

[Jurrunio]

ECC is fine, at worst it just run non-ECC mode. But is it buffered or 4 gigabit?

[Nickinum]

Just now, Windows7ge said:

The motherboard manual states it only supports non-ECC memory but it is possible you could use the memory just that the ECC feature will be disabled. What CPU are you using? We can check if it supports ECC at all.

I know its old but a I7 920

[Nickinum]

1 minute ago, Jurrunio said:

ECC is fine, at worst it just run non-ECC mode. But is it buffered or 4 gigabit?

Its 4G

[Jurrunio]

3 minutes ago, Nickinum said:

Its 4G

ah, no I'm supposed to ask "is it 4bit memory dies". Those are AMD only.

[Windows7ge]

6 minutes ago, Nickinum said:

I know its old but a I7 920

Yeah, no it doesn't support ECC.

 

Jurrunio reminded me of something important since were talking about server memory here. Is it UDIMM or RDIMM? (Unbuffered or Registered) If it's RDIMM chances are you won't be able to use it. If it's UDIMM there's hope.

[Nickinum]

1 minute ago, Windows7ge said:

Yeah, no it doesn't support ECC.

 

Jurrunio reminded me of something important since were talking about server memory here. Is it UDIMM or RDIMM? (Unbuffered or Registered) If it's RDIMM chances are you won't be able to use it. If it's UDIMM there's hope.

it looks like its a RDIMM

 

[Nickinum]

6 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

ah, no I'm supposed to ask "is it 4bit memory dies". Those are AMD only.

how do i tell?

[Jurrunio]

2 minutes ago, Nickinum said:

it looks like its a RDIMM

 

then no you can't use it.

 

1 minute ago, Nickinum said:

how do i tell?

Googling the part number, but if it is RDIMM (in the model number it might say 1333R for example) then that's no longer a problem

[Windows7ge]

1 minute ago, Nickinum said:

how do i tell?

If the label says something like Regestered, RDIMM, or Buffered.

What you want to see is something like Unbuffered or UDIMM.

 

Alternatively if you can tell us what the label says.

[Nickinum]

1 minute ago, Windows7ge said:

If the label says something like Regestered, RDIMM, or Buffered.

What you want to see is something like Unbuffered or UDIMM.

 

Alternatively if you can tell us what the label says.

its says 2Rx4 pc3-10600R 

[Slayer3032]

I've never tried ECC with an i7 but ECC Unbuffered works great with the Xeons which work in those sockets, the best of which are $25 and less.

 

Registered memory is not officially supported but occasionally does work just fine for some people on some boards. If you got it, give it a try!

[Nickinum]

1 minute ago, Slayer3032 said:

I've never tried ECC with an i7 but ECC Unbuffered works great with the Xeons which work in those sockets, the best of which are $25 and less.

 

Registered memory is not officially supported but occasionally does work just fine for some people on some boards. If you got it, give it a try!

What would be the best xeon for this socket I'm not to familiar with them.

[Crunchy Dragon]

5 minutes ago, Nickinum said:

What would be the best xeon for this socket I'm not to familiar with them.

Something in the X56xx family of Xeons would be the best.

[Nickinum]

I really appreciate all of your help I think i'm going to try a xeon X5690

[Slayer3032]

There's a great thread for X58 stuff you might want to check out too, there's guys there who do everything from booting NVMe's, dry ice overclocking and more crazy stuff. You'll likely end up buying a Westmere hexcore though!

 

I'd suggest a X5675 since it's generally $25, pretty well binned and often performs about the same as a i7 980x and the higher end X5680/X5690 skus when overclocked.

 

There's all sorts of options from $3-5 Nehalem quads like the E5520 or X5550, up to high end Westmere hexcores like the X5680/X5690 which are most valuable and useful with motherboards you can't overclock with like a Mac Pro, server or workstation. There's also Westmere quads like the X5687 and low end hexcores like the E5649, all of which overclock rather well.

 

Xeons are multiplier locked though so unlike a i7 980x/990x you will only be able to reduce the multiplier from stock, X58 however is capable of overclocking with the base clock so nothing stops you from running 23x200 to get 4.6ghz instead of say for example 46x100. You will also generally need a bios update for Westmere/Gulftown/hexcore support, but my home server's Asus P6T's latest bios works great and the P6T boards are really common. Most of the boards in the P6T line up are lower end so don't expect to break records with them but with a good cooler there's no reason you shouldn't see 4.0-4.2ghz. Overclocking is really the strength of this platform.

[Nickinum]

4 minutes ago, Slayer3032 said:

There's a great thread for X58 stuff you might want to check out too, there's guys there who do everything from booting NVMe's, dry ice overclocking and more crazy stuff. You'll likely end up buying a Westmere hexcore though!

 

I'd suggest a X5675 since it's generally $25, pretty well binned and often performs about the same as a i7 980x and the higher end X5680/X5690 skus when overclocked.

 

There's all sorts of options from $3-5 Nehalem quads like the E5520 or X5550, up to high end Westmere hexcores like the X5680/X5690 which are most valuable and useful with motherboards you can't overclock with like a Mac Pro, server or workstation. There's also Westmere quads like the X5687 and low end hexcores like the E5649, all of which overclock rather well.

 

Xeons are multiplier locked though so unlike a i7 980x/990x you will only be able to reduce the multiplier from stock, X58 however is capable of overclocking with the base clock so nothing stops you from running 23x200 to get 4.6ghz instead of say for example 46x100. You will also generally need a bios update for Westmere/Gulftown/hexcore support, but my home server's Asus P6T's latest bios works great and the P6T boards are really common. Most of the boards in the P6T line up are lower end so don't expect to break records with them but with a good cooler there's no reason you shouldn't see 4.0-4.2ghz. Overclocking is really the strength of this platform.

Thank you for going the extra mile and informing me of the best way to go about this I didn't not know there was another thread 

that goes more in depth about this whole thing. Thank you.