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Is there any advantage to using ECC for a gaming or desktop PC?

• p1mrx 6y ago
  Given the choice, why would anyone ever want RAM that can flip bits undetected? It's basically a design flaw.
  • esperent 6y ago
    ECC RAM is more expensive - from a very quick search looks like 16gb ddr4 2666mhz would be about 30% higher price for ECC. I've used non-ECC RAM for my entire life so far and bit flipping has never caused an obvious error for me, so if I'm going to pay more for ECC RAM I'd need a good reason to do so.
    • Sholmesy 6y ago
      I think the problem with the bitflipping errors, is that you don't necessarily know that they've happened. They are demonstrably broken though, and I agree it should be ECC everywhere