Thread: Need Registered Memory?

I've heard that Registered memory is more reliable then Unbuffered memory. Can someone point me to some statistics to show me what the concerns are with Unbuffered (Unregistered) memory?

Since I only plan to use between 6 and 12 Gigs of memory with a single Xeon W3503 with 4.8 GT/s bandwith, I am wondering if I registered memory is necessary.

Note: My new system will be used for MPEG rendering of home movies and compilation of linux distributions via Sun VirtualBox.

Unless you're planning on buying a server motherboard, then regular DDR3 is the stuff for you. Fully Buffered/Registered RAM is much more expensive, but it wouldn't give any sort of performance boost or increase reliability for your case.