by asassin' » Sun Dec 13, 2015 3:05 pm
Went to the link, clicked the show all tab & saw 3 X 4GB unbuffered ECC for $153. 24 GB non ECC can be had well within a $100 range. My question was about speed and efficiency vs precision. Back in the day, you could mix as long as you didn't try to run in ECC mode, but it wouldn't surprise me that today it's verboten. On the other hand, 12GB non would save enough to replace an aging raptor with a SSD. That said, it wouldn't hurt much to lean toward precision for science; so ECC it is.