Is ECC memory a meme? Outside of servers, what is the justifcation for having ECC in a workstation given how DDR4 already has a degree of error correction in the first place
Is ECC memory a meme? Outside of servers...
Benjamin Powell
Joseph Adams
1. you can shit on your non-ecc friends
2. with right amount of investment (proper cpu, proper motherboard, proper psu, water cooling system) you can build a VERY overclockable system, thus getting the performance of 10% more expensive cpu for just 60% higher price.
Dylan Gray
ecc certifies that it has been blessed by a rabbi
Elijah Hernandez
RAM issues can cause all kinds of problems. One bit flipped in the wrong place, and your entire file system breaks.
Jaxon James
Basically zfs.
OP if you aren't running a server forget it. your gaymes will not benefit at all from ecc ram.
Blake Reed
>about 5 single bit errors in 8 Gigabytes of RAM per hour using the top-end error rate
Thomas Miller
It's a meme for consumers because it runs slower, which is OK on servers where there are more tasks running in parallel which needs more accuracy. You don't want a server without ECC RAM to process your payments, right?
James Baker
If you're going to use intense cryptography and use large files than maybe it can be useful
But you're better buying cheap non-ecc memory and running memtest from time to time
Andrew Jackson
Faster resolves of collision means less latency. Pretty simple.
Chase Davis
>DDR4 already has a degree of error correction
source, please. This is the first I've heard of this.