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I believe that is is a right. Every machine I've built in the last ~12 years had had ECC. Nobody is trying to take that ability away from me. I treat my machine
by intrasight 4y ago
I believe that is is a right. Every machine I've built in the last ~12 years had had ECC. Nobody is trying to take that ability away from me. I treat my machine as a "workstation". I run several VMs. I keep my machines for a few years. I clean the filters periodically.
Do game machines need ECC? I'd say no. They are optimized for cost-performance. The worse that can happen with a memory error is a lost game.
- indolering 4y agoYou have the good fortune of being able to afford lots of expensive hardware. Mandating ECC is basically like mandating seat-belts in all cars: it makes safety cheaper for everyone through the economies of scale. Gamers and libertarians could theoretically disable it if they so chose and the total cost to them would only be a few pennies for the wasted motherboard circuitry.
- intrasight 4y agoBut he said "right" not "mandate". My point was only that I currently do have an implicit right. ECC memory isn't that much more expensive. I was fortunate to build my current machine a few months before memory prices doubled. Previous generation Xeon CPUs aren't very expensive. Same with motherboards. And another option is to just buy a used server. These are super cheap now as so many companies are moving to cloud computing.