hnfmr Posted December 25, 2004 Share Posted December 25, 2004 Hi, I have purchased the ASUS A8V Deluxe motherboard, with AMD FX55... But when selecting memory..I am very confused.. Initally I chose Corsair Value Select PC3200 1GB (2x512) Matched pair... Later found out (on AMD's website), that AMD FX CPUs only compatible with 'registered' memories. So I decided to use Cosair TwinX Reg-PC3200C2PT, which is registered (in description)....by the way, is Registered same as ECC and Buffered?? (#(#($*#$*#$%^&* CONFUSED...-_-"... Now that I also noticed that the motherboard does not support 'registered' memories!!...The MOBO only supports un-ECC, un-Buffered (isn't Buffered=Registered?).... Now I am utterly confused..and need your advice...-.-/// Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMC_SAVAGE Posted December 25, 2004 Share Posted December 25, 2004 The "Type" of RAM a sytem requires depends on the Chipset of the MOBO. The terms Buffered and Registered are basically the same. ECC is different. A module can be Registered ECC or Unbuffered ECC. And of course unbuffered/non ECC. That board does not support Registered or unbuffered ECC RAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted December 26, 2004 Corsair Employees Share Posted December 26, 2004 And F.Y.I. Socket 754 and 939 AMD 64 CPU's all require un-buffered AKA Non-registered memory. AMD64 Socket 940 all require Regsitered memory! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 Just got that board myself. There is an ECC setting in the BIOS, and on their site it does list some ECC memory as being tested in it, although it says only non-ECC memory is to be used with it (WTF!): http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/socket939/a8v-d/overview.htm Doesn't look like any of it is registered though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hnfmr Posted December 27, 2004 Author Share Posted December 27, 2004 Thank you very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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