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ECC support on xeon E3 cpu´s is abit pointless.

Because normal Z/H/Q series boards dont support ECC.

 

You have to buy a more expensive C-series chipset board, to have ECC memory support.

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im making a gaming/editing rig and im buying a intel xeon 1246-v3 and i seen that all Xeons support ECC memory.

how much is ECC , what is it used for and why should i get it / not get it . thanks

 

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Error Code Correcting, unless you are running a mission critical PC there is no point mate, stick with regular RAM because it is cheaper and perfectly fine.

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It's used for servers or editing rigs. ECC stands for Error Correcting Code - it's used to remove errors in RAM when they pop up. NVIDIA's professional cards also include ECC memory.

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ECC support on xeon E3 cpu´s is abit pointless.

Because normal Z/H/Q series boards dont support ECC.

 

You have to buy a more expensive C-series chipset board, to have ECC memory support.

oh ok

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