Memory Decisions: Unbuffered vs. Registered vs. Registered + ECC

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Have a Server Board but not sure what Memory type you should run then check out this new guide out at 2CPU.com which looks at Unbuffered vs. Registered vs. Registered + ECC Memory!

The SMP community has grown a lot over the last couple of years, and it gets a lot of its new users from the uniprocessor realm. Many of these new SMPers and others who are simply curious about "our" world are often confused by the different types of memory both available and often required by certain multiple processor platforms. It's with this in mind that we're here today taking a look at unbuffered, registered and ECC memory.

If this article prevents one reader from purchasing unbuffered memory for his/her Serverworks GC-SL based motherboard, it's been a success.

Let's briefly talk about unbuffered, registered and ECC memory and then take a look at how what type of memory you decide to purchase can impact overall performance. I'm fortunate to have an MSI Master LS2 in my possession which is an Intel E7505-based board that will happily take unbuffered or registered memory and also supports ECC.

Memory Decisions: Unbuffered vs. Registered vs. Registered + ECC