ECC Ram (Was: Debian 5.0 & 64 bits)

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:58:02 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 14:22, Andrew M.A. Cater

>> Get good quality memory (possibly ECC memory if you can) and you'll
>> have a workhorse for a long period of time.
> 
> Since I doubt he is running a DB that big just for fun, I would say ECC
> RAM is mandatory. In fact, every time I look up the error rates for RAM,
> I wonder why consumer class RAM isn't ECC.

I have read the latest Intel chipsets (Core i7 - Bloomfield) do not allow 
ECC RAM.

Quite rare :-?

Greetings,

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Camaleón