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I had two RAM chip failures last year (notebook, PC). It took a while to figure out what the root cause of weird issues was (only one of several chips was fault
by frik 11y ago
I had two RAM chip failures last year (notebook, PC). It took a while to figure out what the root cause of weird issues was (only one of several chips was faulty). Windows inbuilt RAM check tools failed to recognice the issue. Mem64+ CD found the defective RAMs - interestingly the memory chip inverted the data which caused weird side effects. The RAM is definitely more expensive than 3 years ago. I would prefer ECC RAM, sadly Intel prefers to deliver that vital function only to server CPUs (Xeon).
- hga 11y agoIntel sells a bunch of workstation oriented Xeons with built in graphics and of course ECC. This posting of mine is being written on a rock solid Ivy Bridge Xeon E3-1225 V2.
- frik 11y agoI know I have a workstation at work with a Xeon CPU and a cheaper i7 at home. Though, the Xeon is basically a i7 CPU chip with enabled ECC and a few other enterprise BIOS level features.