The N100 supports "In-band ECC" (IBECC), which uses regular non-ECC RAM at the cost of less available memory and a 10-20% performance drop. It’s unclear how well it works, and almost nobody uses it.

> But the specs also said ECC RAM and I don't think the N100 supports that.

If I remember correctly it can in theory but in practice I have never seen a N100 with ECC.

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