Saelokijpx7h

 I had a few nonECC stick fails with unintended consequences (maybe 12% of all my RAM over the last 5 years) Lost a ZFS array this way But don't be fooled i also had LOTS of ECC RAM fail (more than nonECC), mostly with correction (parity) working, but sometimes it did not and caused, again, data corruption If you want to be 100% safe you need to use enterprise HW andEither way, you haven't ordered the ram yet so just try the nonecc dimms when you get the board and CPU and see if it works Worst case you will just have to wait to use it until you can get some ecc ram Yes, if the nonecc dimms work you will just be able to pop them out and put ecc dimms in, no configuration needed on the OS side Nonecc ram Corsair valueselect 8x8gb (cmv8gx3m1a1333c9) ecc ram Samsung 8x8gb (M393B1K70CH0CH9) Both types are ddr3 and work at 1333 Mhz (PC) I read in this forum that non ecc ram works good for cfd and ecc is not a must What Is Ecc Ram Velocity Micro Blog Non ecc ram meaning ...