ECC memory for specific brand?

[fahim5001]

hey there, i was doing my nas build, and as free nas suggest i went to look for ECC memory and found 8x8gb for 120$ USD

But, since i have zero work experience with ECC memory, one thing was bugging me before ordering the kits.

The product i want to order says "for HP DELL IBM", my question is, will it work on other boards/platforms?

here is a link for the product-
http://www.ebay.com/itm/64GB-16x4GB-PC3-10600R-DDR3-1333MHz-ECC-Reg-HP-IBM-DELL-/131734841299?hash=item1eac0227d3:g:DmMAAOSwuAVWzC8G

[comicsansms]

"For Dell HP IBM" is a clickbait title so people who have a dell and do little research buy that ram.

It doesn't matter, it is irreverent.

 

But why do you want 64GB of ram?

[Monkeypeas]

depends on what board you have, if it supports registered ECC ram along with your processor, then yes, it will work, if its a desktop grade board that doesnt, then probably not.

 

ECC ram sometimes works in non ECC boards (although obviously without the ecc support)

Buffered/Registered Ram pretty much never works in unsupported or desktop boards

 

If your motherboard takes Registered/Buffered ram, it will ONLY work with Registered/Buffered ram

 

look up the specs for your board and find out

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Comic_Sans_MS said:

"For Dell HP IBM" is a clickbait title so people who have a dell and do little research buy that ram.

It doesn't matter, it is irreverent.

 

Not always - there's plenty of system specific RAM, especially when it comes to severs and enterprise PC's as they usually have specialist health monitoring firmware on them that reports back to a management system, similar to some of vPro's features. 

[comicsansms]

5 minutes ago, Windspeed36 said:

Not always - there's plenty of system specific RAM, especially when it comes to severs and enterprise PC's as they usually have specialist health monitoring firmware on them that reports back to a management system, similar to some of vPro's features. 

I did not know that. Thank-you.

But what would happen if the ram was put in a computer that didn't support that monitoring feature?

Would it just not have the monitoring features?

[fahim5001]

i got my hands on a ASUS Z8NA-D12 board recently with 2 xeon CPU's at a bargain price ($200 for mobo+2x xeon L5640)

what i plan to do is make a 30gig/40gig ram disk where i can work with ps/ae/ai and stuffs like that.

so it is safe to buy those rams and use them in any other motherboard?

[Hamosch]

12 minutes ago, fahim5001 said:

i got my hands on a ASUS Z8NA-D12 board recently with 2 xeon CPU's at a bargain price ($200 for mobo+2x xeon L5640)

what i plan to do is make a 30gig/40gig ram disk where i can work with ps/ae/ai and stuffs like that.

so it is safe to buy those rams and use them in any other motherboard?

 

It might work, according to ASUS https://www.asus.com/Commercial-Servers-Workstations/Z8NRD12/specifications/ the board supports 

DDR3, , RDIMM
UDIMM, with ECC

 

but nothing can be promised unless you go with stuff on the QVL of your board: http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket1366/Z8NR-D12/Manual&QVL/Z8NR-D12_memory_QVL_20121203.pdf

[Guest]

11 hours ago, Comic_Sans_MS said:

I did not know that. Thank-you.

But what would happen if the ram was put in a computer that didn't support that monitoring feature?

Would it just not have the monitoring features?

A lot of the time it doesn't work.