ASRock E3C236D4U ECC and CPU compatibility question

[infernap12]

So I'm doing research into building a unRAID box with the idea of getting something bare bones put together now with the potential for improvement later on. The reason I've gone with this server grade MB is because I'm after IPMI, because at least 50% of the reason for building this is to learn stuff about servers, enterprise, virtualisation, networking etc.

So the idea is that i initially pair the E3C236D4U with a Celeron G3900 as its about the cheapest thing i can put in there, and later down the track upgrade to a Xeon E3-1230 down the track as i need more power for more virtualisation/ECC.

My question is, will the system even POST if i put ECC memory with the Celeron, or will i have to buy non-ECC ram now, and buy ECC memory with the Xeon later? The ASRock page says it supports both Xeons and Celerons and also ECC and non-ECC but I'm wondering whether they are cross-compatible.
Source: 
http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=E3C236D4U#CPU
http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=E3C236D4U#Memory

[brwainer]

5 hours ago, infernap12 said:

So I'm doing research into building a unRAID box with the idea of getting something bare bones put together now with the potential for improvement later on. The reason I've gone with this server grade MB is because I'm after IPMI, because at least 50% of the reason for building this is to learn stuff about servers, enterprise, virtualisation, networking etc.

So the idea is that i initially pair the E3C236D4U with a Celeron G3900 as its about the cheapest thing i can put in there, and later down the track upgrade to a Xeon E3-1230 down the track as i need more power for more virtualisation/ECC.

My question is, will the system even POST if i put ECC memory with the Celeron, or will i have to buy non-ECC ram now, and buy ECC memory with the Xeon later? The ASRock page says it supports both Xeons and Celerons and also ECC and non-ECC but I'm wondering whether they are cross-compatible.
Source: 
http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=E3C236D4U#CPU
http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=E3C236D4U#Memory

Be careful when quoting Xeon CPU models - the version is very important.

 

"E3-1230" - if this existed (not sure) it would be 4 generations old

"E3-1230 v3" - this is a Haswell CPU. It is not compatible with your motherboard.

"E3-1230 v5" - this is the CPU you want

 

As for the Celeron, Intel ARK, where all vital CPU information can be found, says that this is a Skylake CPU with ECC memory support. http://ark.intel.com/products/90741/Intel-Celeron-Processor-G3900-2M-Cache-2_80-GHz?ui=BIG And if you use google, you can find that the C236 chipset supports skylake CPUs. So I would expect no issues with this motherboard/CPU/RAM combo.

[infernap12]

Thanks for the reply, the version thing totally slipped my mind when i wrote the topic and for some reason i just assumed the celeron wouldn't support ECC. Thanks for pointing that out.