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seriously? What Intel did - segmenting the market and forcing the to pay for a feature that's already supported in the memory controller, was just greed.
by xxs 4y ago
seriously? What Intel did - segmenting the market and forcing the to pay for a feature that's already supported in the memory controller, was just greed.
- CTDOCodebases 4y agoIt wasn’t just Intel. Hardware vendors loved it. Imagine all the RMAs they avoided since non-ECC RAM just lets the computer keep on keeping on making any RAM issue look like a software issue. Especially in current times with the popularity of soldered in RAM. Hats off to AMD for supporting ECC RAM though.
- xxs 4y agoECC allows the CPU to auto-correct errors for the most part. Then replace the memory, when the errors become too often, or too 'bad' - uncorrectable errors. The hardware vendors should be even happier, more chips per DRAM module to boot.
- monocasa 4y agoHardware vendors are very happy when a user's problem lacks the introspection the definitively point to hardware as the root cause, making it not their support team's problem. They also like reducing BoMs.