Need an ECC memory compatible motherboard for i7 3770

[takkischitt]

As the title suggests, I have an i7 3770 CPU and some ECC memory modules and I want to build a basic home server/PC system to be used solely for backup storage, archive storage and media serving to various devices on the home network.

 

Ive tried looking for 1155 motherboards which support ECC memory, but there doesn't seem to be much. There are the 1155 Xeon motherboards which support ECC, but I'm not sure they'd support the i7 3770.

 

Can anyone advise or help?

[Kilrah]

The 3770 doesn't support ECC regardless of motherboard. On Intel ECC support is reserved to Xeon CPUs.

[Fasauceome]

5 minutes ago, takkischitt said:

Ive tried looking for 1155 motherboards which support ECC memory, but there doesn't seem to be much. There are the 1155 Xeon motherboards which support ECC

you will require a  Xeon processor to use ECC memory when it comes to Intel CPUs

[takkischitt]

Aww, well there goes that idea! I'll have to look into getting some DDR3 non-ecc memory.

 

Thanks for the quick reply. 

[LTTFan16538228]

You don’t need ECC memory for a basic backup/media server.

[Selle]

18 minutes ago, takkischitt said:

Aww, well there goes that idea! I'll have to look into getting some DDR3 non-ecc memory.

 

Thanks for the quick reply. 

You can still use your ECC ram, but the ECC function will be disabled 

[Roswell]

23 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

The 3770 doesn't support ECC regardless of motherboard. On Intel ECC support is reserved to Xeon CPUs.

 

22 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

you will require a  Xeon processor to use ECC memory when it comes to Intel CPUs

 

Unbuffered ECC will generally work with consumer chips/boards minus the error correcting.

 

@takkischitt Make sure the memory is unbuffered. If so, you'll probably be fine with whatever board you end up getting.

[takkischitt]

14 hours ago, LTTFan16538228 said:

You don’t need ECC memory for a basic backup/media server.

Oh, I thought ECC memory was generally better for that sort of use. Can you elaborate?

[takkischitt]

14 hours ago, Roswell said:

 

 

Unbuffered ECC will generally work with consumer chips/boards minus the error correcting.

 

@takkischitt Make sure the memory is unbuffered. If so, you'll probably be fine with whatever board you end up getting.

I'll check the memory modules when doing the build. I take it if I'm not sure, I could just stick the memory modules in and see if they're detected?

[jaslion]

21 minutes ago, takkischitt said:

Oh, I thought ECC memory was generally better for that sort of use. Can you elaborate?

It's error correcting memory. Ram almost never even has an error happen and normally it's not unrecoverable. The change you'll ever take advantage of ecc ram in a personal backup nas thingy is basically 0. So it's absolutely not needed.