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[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Also…I’m not sure that ECC is the right fix. I kind of wonder whether the fact is actually that the memory is broken, or that people are manually overclocking and running memory that would be stable at a lower rate at too high of a rate, which will cause that.

Some of it is cosmic rays, right? I think ECC is still worth it even at JEDEC speeds.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 22 hours ago

even at JEDEC speeds.

My last Intel motherboard couldn't handle all four slots filled with 32GB of memory at rated speeds. Any two sticks yes, four no. From reading online, apparently that was a common problem. Motherboard manufacturers (who must have known that there were issues, from their own testing) did not go out of their way to make this clear.

Maybe it's not an issue with registered/buffered memory, but with plain old unregistered DDR5, I think that manufacturers have really selling product above what they can realistically do.