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> Maybe someone who does video encoding or compiling large projects will spike their CPU usage to 100% for a couple hours per day at most. Yeah that's sort of
by throwaway81523 5y ago
> Maybe someone who does video encoding or compiling large projects will spike their CPU usage to 100% for a couple hours per day at most.
Yeah that's sort of my situation, I do some large data conversion (not video but same idea) tasks that do run 24/7, sometimes up to a couple weeks long, but those tasks are infrequent and the box is idle the rest of the time. I do most of it on a Hetzner server that uses an old Intel desktop cpu. CPU has been fine all this time, but they did swap out the memory sticks for me due to suspected errors a while back.
So far it sounds like only AMD supports ECC memory for the desktop processors, and imho that is significant. I'm staying away from home PC's (other than my dinky laptop) but if I were to get one, I'd want ECC.
- freemint 5y agoThe last time I checked they didn't support it, they just didn't fuse it off on the die. If you want the reliability off ECC you probably also want that functionality verified and tested unless you are just buying it because it might help and it sounds cool. I haven't seen any benchmarks how immune to radiation DDR-5 to DDR-4 with ECC is but DDR-5 has a kind of parity check build in.