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Because ECC and OC are targeted at different audiences. If you want both... you don't understand one or the other. ECC is to guarantee system stability. Solvin
by valarauca1 9y ago
Because ECC and OC are targeted at different audiences. If you want both... you don't understand one or the other.
ECC is to guarantee system stability. Solving rare event that become regular once you have hundreds of boxes running.
OC INCREASES system instability. You put more power into a chip, increasing the probability of incorrect or malformed answers.
Now both these scenarios are rare, especially for single box home enthusiasts. Generally if you have a stable OC you won't hit garbled instruction results. Likewise you may almost never have an error that ECC would present.
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Having OC and ECC basically says, "I want to solve one extremely rare error while opening myself up to another!" This is an idiotically unsound decision.
- mschuster91 9y agoYou can (and should!) decrease error ratios while OCing by providing proper cooling. Having ECC memory in an OC setup will increase its stability further - and there are perfectly valid reasons for overclocking, for example if you want more computing power than even a 22-core Xeon does not provide.
- Dylan16807 9y agoECC can help you ensure that your OC is still stable. And these chips are optimized for power use in servers. There is often a lot of room for stable overclocking. You're also not guaranteed perfect operation inside the CPU without an overclock, so if it's idiotic to combine OC and ECC, it's idiotic to use ECC at all.