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This is irrelevant. Back in 286 30 pin simm times when every motherboard supported ECC price difference was ~10%. ECC was still supported on almost ever 386/486
by rasz 4y ago
This is irrelevant. Back in 286 30 pin simm times when every motherboard supported ECC price difference was ~10%. ECC was still supported on almost ever 386/486 board. Then came Intel with 430 chipsets artificially segmenting ECC exclusively for expensive server market HX offerings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_430HX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_430HX
- eqvinox 4y agoOf course Intel segmenting ECC out of the client market is a major factor… … which does not mean other factors are "irrelevant"… … and also the price differential in ECC memory is not only a factor but also a metric as it shows that ECC memory has a "non-mainstay" surcharge created by the vast majority of users going for non-ECC. If demand were equal, the price would be 9/8 = 1.125×.
- rasz 4y agoDemand cant be equal when nothing on the desktop supported ECC for the last 22 years (2017-1995), and even now its only a select fragment of ~28% market share. Things would look different if you could reuse server ram in any desktop board. 16-24GB DDR3 ECC ram sticks sell at 4x discount compared to regular old DDR3. I havent looked into DDR4 difference.