jack-jr123
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Hi all,
It's really unclear wether the lower-end i3 processors do support (and actually use!) ECC memory when used on server motherboards with C202/204/206 chipsets.
Intel doesn't tell anything on their product page (http://ark.intel.com/products/53422/).
I already found this thread about this problem, but the answer is still unclear.
With the help of jvsfms's post, I wrote this small C program that should indicate if ecc is working or not.
I do not own an i3 processor to do the test.
So I'm asking if someone could run this program for me?
It can be compiled with:
and must be run as root.
It outputs something like this:
The interesting part is the first byte (from the right).
In my case the 0 means obviously that ECC is not enabled, and this is normal since I ran it on a i5 2500k.
According to Intel's datasheet:
0: ECC disabled
1: ECC is active in I/O; ECC logic is not active In this case.
2: ECC is disabled in I/O, but ECC logic is enabled.
3: ECC active in both I/O and ECC logic
It's really unclear wether the lower-end i3 processors do support (and actually use!) ECC memory when used on server motherboards with C202/204/206 chipsets.
Intel doesn't tell anything on their product page (http://ark.intel.com/products/53422/).
I already found this thread about this problem, but the answer is still unclear.
With the help of jvsfms's post, I wrote this small C program that should indicate if ecc is working or not.
I do not own an i3 processor to do the test.
So I'm asking if someone could run this program for me?
It can be compiled with:
Code:
gcc ecc_check.c -o ecc_check
It outputs something like this:
Code:
5004-5007h: 8 0 62 0
5008-500Bh: 8 0 62 0
The interesting part is the first byte (from the right).
In my case the 0 means obviously that ECC is not enabled, and this is normal since I ran it on a i5 2500k.
According to Intel's datasheet:
0: ECC disabled
1: ECC is active in I/O; ECC logic is not active In this case.
2: ECC is disabled in I/O, but ECC logic is enabled.
3: ECC active in both I/O and ECC logic