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Pretty sure my next PC build is going to be Zen 2 (3xxx series) and I'm going to try and get ECC memory for it. Even if it costs a little more/a little slower I
by bpye 8y ago
Pretty sure my next PC build is going to be Zen 2 (3xxx series) and I'm going to try and get ECC memory for it. Even if it costs a little more/a little slower I think the knowledge that my data hasn't been corrupted is worth it.
- jrockway 8y agoSame. I've been through two computers that have randomly been flaky. It turned out, after 2 years of debugging, that the PSU didn't really like suddenly having load on it (like when the CPU turbo-boosts 8 cores) and that that was leading to crashes. (It was a 1000W PSU, too; I thought overprovisioning would solve all my problems, but I guess not.) I suspected the memory the whole time, though, and having ECC would have at least been one less thing to worry about. The other thing that annoys me about PC hardware is that the motherboard tries as hard as possible to make your system unstable. I don't want overclocking. I don't want to run the memory at XMP speeds. Just give me a button for "run everything at its conservative spec". (With that in mind, I'm not sure memory manufacturers test anything other than their XMP timings, leaving you to guess whether the non-XMP profile has the right voltage/latency numbers. It's infuriating!)