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turtle
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Formerly turtle2472
 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
 
2022-08-08, 11:33

If you are going to keep putting money into your old hardware be sure it is ECC compatible. Won't do you any good if the Mobo can't handle it.

For heat spreading... it is hit or miss. Most of the time I think it is more to do with looks rather than function. For all the sticks I've dealt with on the lower speed side there hasn't been heat sinks. Only once they start screaming.

Cost, yeah ECC normally is much more expensive. Here is a comparable though different brand for the ECC sticks you picked.

Edit: Here is a Crucial version of mine without ECC.. Almost as much for two DIMMs as I pay for a single with ECC. Laptop DIMMs seem to rob you so much more than desktop DIMMs.

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Last edited by turtle : 2022-08-08 at 12:42.
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