Viking C66618 128MB PC100 ECC CL3 DIMM Memory, Compaq Part# 166618-B21

Rating:
Summary: Always buy ECC memory if your computer can use it
Review: Have you ever been playing a game and in the middle of kicking the snot out of the last boss on the last level and then all of the sudden your computer crashes or reboots? Or maybe you were surfing a cool new site that hadn't yet bookmarked and OOPS your computer crashed. Well, ECC memory may be what you need, but it's not for everyone. First, it's usually a bit more expensive than non-ECC RAM. Second, it's still a fairly high-end feature and some motherboards don't support ECC RAM. My motherboard will accept either type so at first I had the cheapo non-ECC memory and had MANY random crashes, but when I switched to all ECC memory I have a crash maybe once every week or so (that's probably due to Win NT or a buggy video driver). I say bite the bullet and get the ECC memory.

Rating:
Summary: Always buy ECC memory if your computer can use it
Review: Have you ever been playing a game and in the middle of kicking the snot out of the last boss on the last level and then all of the sudden your computer crashes or reboots? Or maybe you were surfing a cool new site that hadn't yet bookmarked and OOPS your computer crashed. Well, ECC memory may be what you need, but it's not for everyone. First, it's usually a bit more expensive than non-ECC RAM. Second, it's still a fairly high-end feature and some motherboards don't support ECC RAM. My motherboard will accept either type so at first I had the cheapo non-ECC memory and had MANY random crashes, but when I switched to all ECC memory I have a crash maybe once every week or so (that's probably due to Win NT or a buggy video driver). I say bite the bullet and get the ECC memory.