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0 pointsalkonaut5y ago0 comments

That's more a hypothetical "if ECC was common enough that the products would exist" scenario.

The current status is that it mostly doesn't exist outside OEM parts. Searching an online retailer for ECC brings me hundreds of results for "non-ECC" RAM. When they occasionally have 1-2 products with ECC, they aren't as aggressively binned as the non-ECC sticks. They'll have higher latencies and lower clock frequencies. Basically: you'll need to accept gambling on being able to overclock your ECC RAM.

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xxs5y ago

ECC could have been common, if there was a meaningful CPU support for. Intel basically did - "you need Xeon to do exactly what an i7 does + ECC, it just costs 5 times more... We just fused the ECC part of memory controller of i7, so buy Xeon."

The entire discussion is about why ECC is not common and why ECC matters. There is no technical reason for ECC to be uncommon aside purposed market segmentation.

Of course, there is no intrinsic availability of ECC udimms for the retail market currently, however that does mean ECC has no use or benefits for a small extra production cost.

alkonautOP5y ago

Completely agree. I'm not avoding it because I don't think it' s worth it in theory. It's because it'snot worth it in practice, right now. Because you basically either have to buy something slower, or can't buy it at all.

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xxs5y ago

The entire discussion is about why ECC is not common and why ECC matters. There is no technical reason for ECC to be uncommon aside purposed market segmentation.

Of course, there is no intrinsic availability of ECC udimms for the retail market currently, however that does mean ECC has no use or benefits for a small extra production cost.

alkonautOP5y ago

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