Yeah! A stick of 5600 can generally reach 6000 with geardown off and that’s as far as I’ve seen cause to dial it. But certain parameters that are popular to lower for latency reduction can be, how would I put it, slightly less flexible — tREFI comes to mind as one that nearly any lowering of (on the enterprise sticks I’m using anyways) tends to cause DFE/MBIST training failures no matter what, even with direct airflow, before it ever boots far enough for memtest to expose ECC errors.

(For those out there following along with PCs, if you aren’t tuning with MBIST maxed out in your BIOS, you might want to revisit that.)

Same experience here. I have a feeling ECC in gaming would soon become a thing if it wasn't for the pricing crisis.

I have come to doubt that single core or CPU performance in general, other than maybe specialty applications like CAD and some games, is all that noticeable for most computer users in the last decade. I can take relatively pedestrian users like my parents or my wife and put them in front of a decade old high end Haswell system or a brand new mega-$$$ threadripper/epyc and for almost all intents and purposes they don't notice a different. What they do notice is when things die. I'm sure consumer hardware might be OK for 2-3 years (maybe), but like for my parents, they're happier to keep using the same computer, and honestly the same Dell Precision system I gave them almost 10 years ago works great today, and I have a suspicion that the hardware, outside of maybe the SSD finally wearing out, will probably work right a decade from now too.

> Very few applications scale with cores

You mean like compilers and test suites ? Very few professional workloads don't parallelize well these days.

But how much bit rot? You’ll never know.