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It's all fun and games until your computer starts acting all weird, like my 3 year old box did, last week. After being befuddled for a couple of hours, I decide
by woadwarrior01 3y ago
It's all fun and games until your computer starts acting all weird, like my 3 year old box did, last week. After being befuddled for a couple of hours, I decided to run MemTest86 off of an Ubuntu installer and found memory errors[1].
The manufacturer has RMA'd the whole set of memory sticks, but ECC would've detected this earlier and I'd have saved a couple of hours of my time.
[1]: https://imgur.com/a/aRHWKxw https://imgur.com/a/aRHWKxw
- eptcyka 3y agoIf you've used the computer for rendering things or running heavy duty analysis, could you trust your results now, if you know that the memory was faulty for some time? ECC isn't about making life easy when the memory goes bad, it's about allowing one to have more confidence in their system operating correctly.
- School-Cotton 3y agoSo you think everyone should be forced to accept higher prices and lower battery life permanently because of something that cost you a few hours, once, that most people never encounter?
- loeg 3y agoThe manufacturing costs and power use are not meaningfully different.
- kevin_thibedeau 3y agoThe purpose of on chip ECC in DDR5 is to lower costs by hiding failures in marginal chips. They can't sell that memory as normal ECC.
- Dylan16807 3y ago12.5% more chips with previous generations wasn't too bad, but 25% more chips with DDR5 gets to be pretty meaningful.