Am 29.07.2014 20:18, schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: > On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 11:00:26PM -0700, Edward MN wrote: >> On 07/26/14 15:55, walt wrote: >>> On 07/26/2014 10:39 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>>> [894019.770058] [Hardware Error]: MC4 Error (node 0): DRAM ECC error >>>> detected on the NB. >>>> […] >>>> and this, my children, is why I am using ECC ram. >>>> […] >>>> And this evening, with a thunderstorm outside I got that beauty above... >>> Is ECC memory a drop-in replacement for ordinary RAM, or does it need >>> a special motherboard? >>> >> yeah, requires a motherboard that supports ECC ram. > Big was my surprise to learn that our old Pentium 3 PC from 1999 has ECC > support in its three RAM sockets. The problem today is the artificial > paritioning of the market. > > It seems nigh impossible (at least in the Intel world, please correct me > regarding AMD) to have ECC RAM in a normal Home PC these days, especially in > an ITX form factor, as I am currently investigating. There are Xeons for the > 1150 “consumer socket”, but ECC is only supported by server chipsets such as > the C series. Those come either on ITX boards with abysmal I/O capabilities > for home use or on high-power workstation ATX boards that cost a small > fortune. *sigh* > > I would have liked the aspect of a system that tells me when something goes > wrong, but there seems no such thing for my requirements. So I must help > myself with file checksums when dealing with my archive disks.
I don't know about AMD's APUs but AFAIK all CPUs using the AM2/AM3 socket support it.
