Maximum amount of RAM depends on ECC?

[Ramon F Herrera]

I was looking for some memory for my desktop PC and was very surprised
by what I found in this page:

http://www2.pny.com/configurator/index.aspx?Category_ID=386

According to that page, the maximum amount of RAM is half (!?) if I
use ECC.

Maximum amount of memory : 2.0 GB (ECC)/4.0 GB (non-ECC)

The computer is a Dell Precision Workstation 650.

How can that be right?

TIA,

-Ramon F Herrera

 

[JeffM]

Ramon F Herrera wrote:

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.electronics/msg/13651a897337a7a9?q=Charters+misc.industry.electronics.marketplace+Discussions+Advertisement-*-*+only-advertise+sci.electronics.equipment-Test-lab-*-*-*-*+already.available.solutions+the.rec.hierarchy+*.*.not.a.forsale.group+*-*-laboratory-*-*-*-*+zzz+Discussion

This group deals with oscilloscopes, wave soldering equipment,
automated test equipment--that sort of thing.

and was very surprised by what I found in this page:
http://www2.pny.com/configurator/index.aspx?Category_ID=386
According to that page, the maximum amount of RAM is half (!?) if I
use ECC.

Questions about general-purpose computers

should go in groups with *comp* in their names.

Questions about computer hardware
should go in groups with *hardware* in their names.

As you are already at Google,
it would be a good idea to learn how to use their search engine.
http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=ingroup:comp+ingroup:hardware+ECC+-di+-da+-de+-la&filter=0&num=100