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Nice upgrades, but no mention of ECC RAM, the single thing that I wanted from an upgrade for a decade? Why do chip makers refuse to take our money? :-P A few
by babylon5 6mo ago
Nice upgrades, but no mention of ECC RAM, the single thing that I wanted from an upgrade for a decade? Why do chip makers refuse to take our money? :-P
A few years ago we were told only "Pro" parts have ECC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37828168 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37828168
- vizzier 6mo agoto be fair, your money isn't as good as VC money for RAM at the moment
- babylon5 6mo agoAre Nvidia using ecc ram? If not this should mean it is less supply constrained than regular ram.
- vizzier 6mo agoI'm open to being wrong, but so far as I understand it ECC mostly lives at the controller level and shares the same DRAM chips across all forms of server memory (including non-ecc), which is why we see price increases across all sectors including consumer. Those DRAM chips being the bottleneck that would require hard to build new silicon fabs to increase supply.
- Melatonic 6mo agoDo mobile CPU's and northbridges support ECC?
- babylon5 6mo agoHandheld mobile no. Laptops could, but rarely/never do due to policy not technical requirements.
- morserer 6mo agoConfused, doesn't all DDR5 support inline ECC by default? Or are you talking about the ability to enable it in the BIOS/OS?
- cromka 5mo agoYou mean On-die ECC. That's not the same as regular ECC.