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will ECC ram work with a pentium cpu?

Ashleyyyy
By Ashleyyyy
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Go to solution Solved by Tricky12321,

no, it wont boot :)

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hello,

 

i was wondering if ecc ram will work on a pentium. 

 

i have some spare ecc ddr3 ram, and an old spare pc (sandy bridge gen pentium) and wanted to know if that combination would work. 

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Phone: OnePlus Nord CE 5G | 128GB | 8GB Ram

Main Desktop: Ryzen 5 3600 | GTX 1060 6GB | 32GB Ram
Main Laptop: Acer Aspire V3-771G | Core i7 3612QM | 16GB

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4 hours ago, Tricky12321 said:

It wont work, sadly 

i know it won't use the ecc on the memory, i just want to know if i could use it. 

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Phone: OnePlus Nord CE 5G | 128GB | 8GB Ram

Main Desktop: Ryzen 5 3600 | GTX 1060 6GB | 32GB Ram
Main Laptop: Acer Aspire V3-771G | Core i7 3612QM | 16GB

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19 minutes ago, Tricky12321 said:

no, it wont boot :)

okay, thanks!

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Phone: OnePlus Nord CE 5G | 128GB | 8GB Ram

Main Desktop: Ryzen 5 3600 | GTX 1060 6GB | 32GB Ram
Main Laptop: Acer Aspire V3-771G | Core i7 3612QM | 16GB

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