ECC vs non-ECC

[RuLeZ]

Guys, is there any advantaged for a gamer ECC memory? Would be harder to the computer to BSOD and corrupt files on the computer? Or it just matter to larger servers? One more question, is there any disadvantages for ECC excluding the extra cost?

[TheRandomness]

Your board and CPU have to support it.

[Josephdalepi]

Guys, is there any advantaged for a gamer ECC memory? Would be harder to the computer to BSOD and corrupt files on the computer? Or it just matter to larger servers? One more question, is there any disadvantages for ECC excluding the extra cost?

for gaming, no

second question, yes but not noticeably

only in large servers and massive content creation does it matter

but no, no disadvantages

[KraftDinner]

It'll correct errors as it goes but it will barely help with corrupt files and such, that's more on the Hardrive file system, ECC memory is mainly used in servers where failure needs to be almost non existent, I would stick to regular memory for a gaming build.

[Lotus]

There's one small disadvantage, depending on the quality of the kit. They're usually one tick slower to respond.

[Boink]

ECC helps prevent errors in pretty much all workloads which is especially important in servers that require 24/7 uptime. ECC RAM also tends to have higher densities per DIMM like the 32GB DIMMs that were used in the 7 gamers 1 CPU build. Other than that, there are no benefits and certainly none that will be seen in a consumer workload. 

 

So yeah, don't bother with ECC

[Opask]

There is pretty much no disadvantages. Other then having to use a Xeon or specific i3(i don't know which amd cpus support it). Also for the most part the cost is pretty much the same. At least last time I looked. And if you care about looks you certainly can't get gamer swag ECC.

But yeah don't bother getting ECC for what you are doing.

[Fetzie]

There is pretty much no disadvantages. Other then having to use a Xeon or specific i3(i don't know which amd cpus support it). Also for the most part the cost is pretty much the same. At least last time I looked. And if you care about looks you certainly can't get gamer swag ECC.

But yeah don't bother getting ECC for what you are doing.

Xeon (Intel) or Opteron (AMD) support ECC.

Disadvantages: ECC RAM is more expensive, it is slower, the motherboards are more expensive (from Skylake onwards you need either a C2xx or C6xx chipset) and the CPUs can't be overclocked.

Advantages: It won't stop a file getting corrupted in storage, but the file won't get corrupted while it is in RAM. You can also have more memory, with some DDR4 ECC RAM coming in 32GB sticks.