Will ECC RAM Work with my system?

[ExidCuter]

So I have recently acquired a Xeon x3450 and upgraded from my i5-760. Now I'm wondering if I could use ECC memory with it. And if I could use more than 16 GiB max specified in the motherboard manual (Gigabyte GA-P55-UD6). Xeon CPU supports 32 GiB as is shown on it's ark page.

 

Thanks for your help!

[TheKDub]

https://ark.intel.com/products/42929/Intel-Xeon-Processor-X3450-8M-Cache-2_66-GHz

 

ECC RAM is supported, so yes.

[ExidCuter]

15 minutes ago, TheKDub said:

https://ark.intel.com/products/42929/Intel-Xeon-Processor-X3450-8M-Cache-2_66-GHz

 

ECC RAM is supported, so yes.

So I don't need a "server" motherboard.

[TheKDub]

6 minutes ago, ExidCuter said:

So I don't need a "server" motherboard.

It depends on the mobo. Some non-server boards support it, others don't. And if they do, it depends on the CPU.

 

From what I saw, the Gigabyte board doesn't say it supports ECC RAM anywhere, though it's possible that it does and it just doesn't advertise it. The manual would be a good place to check, or just test it yourself.