Ram

[Music Manic]

Recently read that it's better to get ECC Ram.
Who uses it and have you had less or no crashes?

Thanks

[alfonso]

ECC Ram is much slower and f.w.i.k. not recommended for audio.

[dawman]

I use ECC in my live rig for that sole purpose. It's slower than CL2-2-2-5 that's for sure. But the added element of stability was for me. All SATA HDD's have cache, and ECC Algorythims, plus the Unbuffered ECC approach that Intel uses is audio friendly. It's actually in between ECC-Reg,and consumer RAM. I use a cutdown server/workstation Motherboard with the ICH-S chip, Hence Rapids. It provides me with PCI-X, where all the audio from the HDD's is routed for GS3. That way Scope is all by itself on PCI buss. The ICH-S/875P is a mature platform,and so is Scope.BTW my mobo is the Supermicro P4SCT+II. It has no audio, 4 Phase power, vertically aligned DIMM's, and all traces on PCB are short, and sweet. It truly was built for stability.Alfonse is correct about the speed issue, but in my particular application, speed might kill. However, I do overclock the FSB to 225MHz cause my CPU is an engineering sample 3.4GHz. I only wish that I could use this rig with a Pentium M somehow. But the Northwood is quite fast. Sorry almost forgot, the system integrator I used designed this Scope/GS3 box with Kingston KVR400X72C3A/1G ( x 2 ). The only crashes I've had are from tweaking around, and human error.But the system has not been used long. But for the last 4 months it's been on for 12 to 16 hours a day and is worth the investment.

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Jimmy V.

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