What's inside ECC or NON-ECC ram?

ECC RAM is usually used in servers, but not commonly used in desktops. All of the Dell computers I have ever bought have had non-ECC ram. If you mix ECC and non-ECC RAM all RAM will run as non-ECC RAM. It is likely that your RAM is non-ECC.

Steve

you can be sure by restarting your pc and enter setup you'll find it there...

Rich

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fotonutt wrote:
- I bought this Dimension 8200 and I am trying ti find
- out what type of ram it has inside it. Does Dell
- install ECC or NON-ECC rdram? Non-ecc ram is cheaper
- so would it be non-ecc OR since I have a decent
- system does it have ECC ram in it? I would like to
- get more ram whether it be through Dell or not but I
- am wondering if I need ECC or not? I would like to
- save some money so I guess I could get Non-ecc but
- is that the correct choice? I basically use my pc
- for using Photoshop 6, PhotoWebber and surfing the
- net. Please someone respond!!
-
-

Hi,

You are on the right track.
Non-ECC is cheaper and unless you paid extra for ECC RAM you got non-ECC.

Here are the memory specs for your system -
http://docs.us.dell.com/docs/systems/dim8200/specs.htm#1102365
Either way, you can mix ECC and non-ECC without any problems. You do not need ECC RAM for your system.
Try http://www.pricegrabber.com for a long list of online sellers or RDRAM, with customer reviews.
I would send you to the Crucial RAM picker on my memory upgrade page but Crucial does not sell RDRAM.

Mis Dos Centavos,
Darrell

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I don't know about ecc or non ecc but I have the 8200 too and just bought 2 more sticks of 128 mb rdram and just installed it a few minutes ago............. I did it, LOL....................

Anyway I got mine here thanks to another poster who put up this site, it's about half the price of dells, $36 /128 mb, you need pairs..... it's samsung ram.

http://nexthardwareshop.com/sam12rampcrd.html



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Karen

Dimension 8200
1.7 g with 256 RDRAM
32 MB NVIDIA GeForce2 MX with TV out
16x10x40x CD RW
250 mb Internal zip
40 gig Hd
Win Me
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This thread has answered a lot of my questions about memory too. Thanks to all.

Mecadon