Will this RAM work with my motherboard? Never seen it before.

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Peter Milinkovic

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So I have the opportunity to buy 64 gigs of RAM pretty cheap, but the owner says it's "server" RAM and doesn't work with his PC. He's not computer savvy so he can't tell me anything more.
The model of the memory is REG MICRON MT36JSZF1G72PZ-1G4D1DD.

You can see it on eBay here:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/32GB-4X8GB-DDR3-ECC-REG-MICRON-MT36JSZF1G72PZ-1G4D1DD-/330521403324

Will this work with my Gigabyte Ga-P75-D3 with i5 2400?

I didn't know that servers had special RAM, what exactly makes it server only?
 
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simple answer no it wont work

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/X99DELUXE/specifications/ see uses non ecc memory

ECC-error correction code

ECC is used in servers to prevent them from crashing. ECC memeory will actually have more memory then actually user available memory. that memory is used to detect memory issues on the fly and can recovery any data from a bad memeory chip (so a system running ecc is a lot less likely to crash/bluescreen).

so ecc memory would be able to find its own faults. normal ram requires running special programs to detect memeory issue (like mem86). ecc memeory will let the system know at anytime that "hey this stick of ram is bad"
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simple answer no it wont work

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/X99DELUXE/specifications/ see uses non ecc memory

ECC-error correction code

ECC is used in servers to prevent them from crashing. ECC memeory will actually have more memory then actually user available memory. that memory is used to detect memory issues on the fly and can recovery any data from a bad memeory chip (so a system running ecc is a lot less likely to crash/bluescreen).

so ecc memory would be able to find its own faults. normal ram requires running special programs to detect memeory issue (like mem86). ecc memeory will let the system know at anytime that "hey this stick of ram is bad"
 
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Peter Milinkovic

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Ahhh, I see. Thanks!

 
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