Installing non-ECC on DELL Precision 670 possible?

[Giovanni Azua]

Hi all,

My MOBO is Dell 0U7565 Intel E7525.

Is possible using non-ECC memory? if so which
replacement would you recommend? any estimate
in % of performance increase when the memory
type is replaced from ECC to non-ECC?

TIA,
Regards,
Giovanni

 

[someone]

Hi all,

My MOBO is Dell 0U7565 Intel E7525.

Is possible using non-ECC memory? if so which
replacement would you recommend? any estimate
in % of performance increase when the memory
type is replaced from ECC to non-ECC?

Go to www.crucial.com and type in your mobo details
it will tell you what you can use.

 

[Pen]

Hi all,

My MOBO is Dell 0U7565 Intel E7525.

Is possible using non-ECC memory? if so which
replacement would you recommend? any estimate
in % of performance increase when the memory
type is replaced from ECC to non-ECC?

TIA,
Regards,
Giovanni

This poster has already asked this question in a Dell forum
and has been told this is not possible. Why he is now posting
here is unclear.

 

[Giovanni Azua]

Hi Pen,

If you understood english properly then you would have noticed
that the following answer "Probably not... I would think that the
BIOS would prevent that." is not very reliable ... did you?

Regards,
Giovanni

 

[Pen]

Hi Pen,

If you understood english properly then you would have noticed
that the following answer "Probably not... I would think that the
BIOS would prevent that." is not very reliable ... did you?

Regards,
Giovanni

Yes I did. It's a work station and requires Registered ECC memory.
And obviously the other people in that group agreed.

 

[CBFalconer]

My MOBO is Dell 0U7565 Intel E7525.

Is possible using non-ECC memory? if so which
replacement would you recommend? any estimate
in % of performance increase when the memory
type is replaced from ECC to non-ECC?

Don't do it. At most you will get about 1% speed improvement,
which is totally unnoticeable. However you are quite likely to
have undetected memory errors, largely due to cosmic rays, which
can corrupt anything at all.

You should insist on ECC memory (and appropriate bios and chipset
support) in any machine you buy. With that you can usually totally
eliminate memory failure worries.

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