ram V7 RAM?

ikdekker · July 1, 2018

Hi there,

I was looking for some RAM, and found one that I wasn't familiar with. It is V7 V7106008GBR which seems to be about half the price of most brands i am familiar with such as Crucial.
Here's the site I want to buy from. Here's the v7 site which does not contain the same RAM stick, but does have other versions available.

I wonder whether this RAM would be compatible with my Gigabyte B D2V motherboard. The memory support list does not say this brand is supported, but it should work in my eyes.

My MOBO memory support list

If anyone has knowledge on this, I'd appreciate some thoughts.

TheSLSAMG · July 1, 2018

The reason that the V7 memory is so cheap is likely because it is a registered ECC DIMM, which is meant specifically for servers and workstations. It will not work with most consumer platforms including your B85 board.

Christophe Corazza · July 1, 2018

You are looking at registered (or buffered) ECC memory. That is a special type of memory that loads the data bits into a register for one clock cycle before actually presenting the data bits to the memory bus. It basically checks the data before sending it out. It does slow down the process by one clock cycle though. It is more for mission critical applications like servers. As a general user you really don't need it.