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> which percentage of developers have ECC on their development machine(s)? That question won't help you evaluate the demand for ECC simply because the supply i
by rhn_mk1 4y ago
> which percentage of developers have ECC on their development machine(s)?
That question won't help you evaluate the demand for ECC simply because the supply is strangled. Those who want it have to make compromises to get ECC: get a Xeon, or get one of few AMD motherboards with matching CPUs and overpriced RAM without a guarantee that it will end up working.
- simoncion 4y ago> ...get one of few AMD motherboards with matching CPUs and overpriced RAM... I mean, if you want a _guarantee_, then sure, get one of those certified-for-ECC motherboards. But, like, as far as I know, going _at least_ far back as the Phenom II (released in 2008) AMD desktop processors have always supported ECC RAM. And -as far as I know- ASUS motherboards for said processors have always supported dropping in ECC RAM (and Linux and memtest and friends have always agreed that ECC was enabled and functioning in such a system). Source: Personal experience with Phenom II, Threadripper, and Ryzen 5 CPUs and ASUS motherboards, and looking-from-a-distance at the rest of the AMD CPUs between the Phenom and the Ryzen 5.