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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by mamon on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @03:04PM (#20689143)
SUPPORTS ECC RAM, but does not require it. You can use plain old RAM chips with it.
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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by kadoban on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @03:48PM (#20689543)
Grandparent's point, presumably, was that _buffered_ ECC RAM would not work. Which is definitely correct. I'm not sure if the sticks in question are buffered or not though.
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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by snuxoll on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @04:38PM (#20689986)
Likely registered, not buffered - FBDIMMs fell out of favor some time ago. Technically still “buffered”, but only the control lines and it maintains electrical compatibility with UDIMMs.
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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by kadoban on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @05:03PM (#20690221)
Ah, thanks for that. I looked up the difference, I'll have to update my terminology.
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