ECC worth it for Audio Production?

[dark_xzyph3r]

Hey guys, I am going to be building a new pc (Hopefully soon) and was wondering if ECC Memory was worth it for Audio Production? The audio program I use is Pro Tools 12 HD and when I am working on a session it saves the session to Ram for faster edits so would ECC matter for that? Thanks.

 

Edit: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/DPgpsY This is what I am looking at right now..

[Pugs501]

What are your PC Specs?

[DXMember]

ECC matters if you want to go with 64GB or more RAM

 

ECC stands for Error Checking and Correction, then means RAM does additional calculations and stores aditional hashes in order to CHECK if there are errors and CORRECT them if there are any.

Errors in memory mean that some ones turned into zeroes.

A regular consumer (non-ECC) RAM encountering an error would most likely cause a BSOD. But you should really only worry about it when you stack crazy amounts of RAM, like 64, 128, 256 GB and more, for anything less it is not worth as the chance of encountering a critical error is negligable

[dark_xzyph3r]

What are your PC Specs?

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/DPgpsY That is what I am looking at right now but am still working on it...

[dark_xzyph3r]

ECC matters if you want to go with 64GB or more RAM

 

ECC stands for Error Checking and Correction, then means RAM does additional calculations and stores aditional hashes in order to CHECK if there are errors and CORRECT them if there are any.

Errors in memory mean that some ones turned into zeroes.

A regular consumer (non-ECC) RAM encountering an error would most likely cause a BSOD. But you should really only worry about it when you stack crazy amounts of RAM, like 64, 128, 256 GB and more, for anything less it is not worth as the chance of encountering a critical error is negligable

 

So for 16 or 32 GB ECC isn't useful? Unless it is being used in a server?

[DXMember]

So for 16 or 32 GB ECC isn't useful? Unless it is being used in a server?

Yes, it would also require a workstation motherboard and a workstation CPU like a Xeon with it to actually use ECC memory.

 

In your case that would be total money waste for no tangible benefit