Chris Snook wrote: >> I'm getting memory for a very old (P2B-LS) Asus motherboard, >> and I see I can get ECC memory for some 20% more. >> >> Is there any point in getting this? > Depends who's buying. Few people do anything on "personal" systems that > really > justifies ECC RAM, though I'm sure the exceptions are probably on this > list. I decided in the end to go with ECC, even though as you say it is probably completely unnecessary in my case. But the cost difference was negligible - $10 on 512MB, so I went for it.