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Thank you Dimitrios for your rather thorough reply to my query. This is why I love this forum: so many people from around the world having such extensive knowledge in all aspects of the 3d world, you can find an answer for anything. I love Dimitrios too for his crusade against meaningless spending on so called "professional" workstations :- So many people waste incredible amount of money on these system to never reap any benefit on it.

I am always for custom builds. Just, go any local PC builder, that is already pretty established bussiness, they can often offer even MUCH faster and reliable service on built computers. You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy! Already have an account? Sign in here. See the Benefits. Error Checking and Correction ECC memory is mostly considered essential in enterprise environments these days.

Single bit error checking and correction within an 8-bit byte allows for single bit errors to be both detected and corrected when they occur. Instead of losing usable memory capacity, memory makers tend to add an additional chip to ECC memory for every eight storage chips. When a single bit error is detected, the parity information is used to reconstruct the data with an error.

Larger errors than multi-bit can be detected but not corrected by the single bit ECC type of parity scheme. For desktops, this is less important as a lot of figures put single-bit errors in the range of 1 per 1GB or 1 per 2GB of memory each month. To a desktop user, this may cause a program to crash, or at worst require a reboot.

In servers, ECC is essential to maintaining both data integrity and uptime. In the above example the memory controller accesses the memory banks directly. Looking at older systems, the memory controller resided within the CPU northbridge. Compare this to the registered memory example below. Here the CPU communicates with the registers for the banks of memory on each module. From there, these registers communicate with the DRAM.

The implications of this are twofold. First, on a negative side, instructions take approximately one CPU cycle longer due to the intermediary of the bank register. It is easier on the memory controller to deal with a fewer number of targets. For virtualization environments where memory, and memory bandwidth is key to achieving high consolidation and density metrics, Registered ECC memory is generally the way to go.

In this article hopefully one can get a conceptual view of the difference between the unbuffered ECC memory and registered ECC memory to help inform selection decisions. A freelance blogger who loves to write about anything related to technology. Born and raised in the Philippines and worked in Singapore for eight years as Technical Support for a wide range of IT equipment. The right amount and the right type of RAM are therefore essential for the system to run smoothly.

What is a DIMM? RDIMM vs. Bandwidth and Latency RDIMMs render an additional clock cycle and more power due to the additional step of traversing the address and command lines to the registry. Which Is Better? The most memory-versatile systems. Joel Active Member. Jan 30, 43 As others have said, the price premium of the memory itself is negligible, and the platforms are typically more reliable anyway. The main cost differential is in the CPU and motherboard, and with a surplus of used gear floating around that is plenty fast enough for me E5 v2 , that becomes a nonissue as well.

Which module did it affect? Hi all, thanks for the feedback. I can definitely say I'm not going baaaack But reason I'm asking is, considering new Supermicro serverboards.

To buy new are still quite expensive. Show hidden low quality content.