ECC Ram and AutoCAD

[guitarguy1685]

how important is ECC RAM for running AutoCAD? I spoke to an HP salesrep and he essentially scolded me for even thinking of doing without it lol. What are your thoughts/experience?

[ReMark]

ECC RAM is not a requirement. If you have $$$ to blow then go ahead.

[guitarguy1685]

I know it's not required, i just want to know how much of a difference will it make? I doesn't sound like it will make my computer faster just more stable.

[monkey7]

I have to admit I never worked with ECC RAM and to be honest I think it's not worth the money. I have always worked with regular RAM and although I do have crashes every now and then I doubt that would be solved by some more expensive RAM.

 

I'd say go for a little more regular RAM and remember that salesmen usually want to sell the more expensive stuff even if the client doesn't benefit from it.

[ReMark]

For anyone who finds themself asking "What is ECC RAM?" Take a look at this:

 

http://serverfault.com/questions/5887/what-is-ecc-ram-and-why-is-it-better

[Tankman]

TANKS for the link ReMark, I was asking myself, "What is ECC Ram?"

 

Now I know and now I know, I don't care. ECC Ram is usually for servers and although I do have one, very seldom more than myself and GF are working at our PC's at the same time. Programs are all on our individual PC's anyway.

 

Not a large biz network, 3 desktops, 2 laptops and two PDA's working out of my barn.

 

Working with tanks and piping, my dimensions are usually ± 1° radial, ± 1", so, I don't really care too awfully much 'bout accuracy. Room to spare! Unless of course I'm working at Vermont Yankee.

[ReMark]

I was always told that unless the RAM was going in a server or the user was design to extremely close tolerances that ECC RAM was a waste of money. But that was also back when there was a much greater price difference between off-the-shelf type RAM and ECC RAM. I haven't done a price comparison lately to see if that has changed.

[Tankman]

Just took a peek-a-boo at crucial ECC Ram.

 

Most laptops and desktops don't even support ECC Ram.

 

My Thinkpad™ runs just fine, AutoCAD '05 and/or '07 both installed, using

2GB PC3-8500 1066Mhz DDR3 SODIMM Memory (two 1GB modules).

Memory is very cheap now-a-days.

 

With XP's OS, I could only support 3GB anyway.