- Does ECC ram overclock better ? -

[RAID]

I was about to buy some Mushkin ram for my Asus CUSL2.

I want to be able to hit 166 FSB with my 1Ghz.

Is rev2 or 3 better? And is ECC better? My motherboard doesn't support ECC like my old 440 chipset. But would ECC have a better overclockability?

Thanks.

[Bovon]

ECC requires one more clock cycle to process data...so, to answer your question for that...no.

[elroy]

ECC will slow down your machine. It is usually used in servers etc. Mission critical systems.
premiersystem.com sells PC150 and PC166 ram

[This message has been edited by elroy (edited 05-25-2001).]

[BBA]

Well, I've been using ECC on my machine for years...When I first went to it, I measured performance against non-ecc, I see no real difference at all, in any benchmark.

I currently run my ECC at CAS2, and think the reliability is much much much better than non-ecc.

I also never have those pesky little system errors that most complain about...you know, like IE hanging up...or my game crashed...etc...etc...

Your choice, but I personally think this is one little item worth splurging on.

[giancarlo_n]

Well, im not sure about speed at same speed as non-ECC sdram, but i did notice one thing that impressed me. I had a ABIT be6 running on kingston PC100 CAS2 SDRAM non-ECC, that wouldnt run past 120MHz FSB...Later i added 64 to total 128, put it on another slower PC that benefits better from RAM, and I used 64MB Hyundai ECC PC100 CAS3 that came on the other NEC Ready 9950 mem. I was just playing around in windows with SFSB and i cranked the freakin thing to 133MHz and it still went on...140MHz was good too!, it booted to windows on 150MHz, but crashed after a few mins...that meant my CPU was running at 750MHZ (a PIII FCPGA 500 cA2 stepping). Might I say that ECC does make a difference then?

[giancarlo_n]

Well, im not sure about speed at same speed as non-ECC sdram, but i did notice one thing that impressed me. I had a ABIT be6 running on kingston PC100 CAS2 SDRAM non-ECC, that wouldnt run past 120MHz FSB...Later i added 64 to total 128, put it on another slower PC that benefits better from RAM, and I used 64MB Hyundai ECC PC100 CAS3 that came on the other NEC Ready 9950 mem. I was just playing around in windows with SFSB and i cranked the freakin thing to 133MHz and it still went on...140MHz was good too!, it booted to windows on 150MHz, but crashed after a few mins...that meant my CPU was running at 750MHZ (a PIII FCPGA 500 cA2 stepping). Even better than some PC133 CAS3 i had. Might I say that ECC does make a difference then?