By: Emil Briggs (me.delete@this.nowherespam.com), January 5, 2021 5:40 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Linus Torvalds (torvalds.delete@this.linux-foundation.org) on January 5, 2021 12:29 pm wrote:
> Jason Snyder (jmcsnyder.delete@this.hotmail.com) on January 4, 2021 1:44 pm wrote:
>
> And those high-end gamers already spend extra on motherboards and blinky lights and cool cases (in
> both senses of "cool"), and they have absolutely no reason not to spend an extra 12% or whatever on
> ECC DRAM. They'd probably gobble it up, if it was just available. But ECC UDIMM's traditionally were
> in the really boring categories, certainly not in the "overclockable DDR4-3200" kind of thing.
>
Crucial DDR4-2666 ECC UDIMM's overclock to DDR-3200 quite nicely with a Threadripper 3960X.
I've used the machine for around a year for HPC software development, which in addition to compiling involves running test cases that use most of it's 64G of RAM. I would not do this with non-ECC DIMM's. With ECC (which is supported on my motherboard) I've had no recorded memory errors yet.
> Jason Snyder (jmcsnyder.delete@this.hotmail.com) on January 4, 2021 1:44 pm wrote:
>
> And those high-end gamers already spend extra on motherboards and blinky lights and cool cases (in
> both senses of "cool"), and they have absolutely no reason not to spend an extra 12% or whatever on
> ECC DRAM. They'd probably gobble it up, if it was just available. But ECC UDIMM's traditionally were
> in the really boring categories, certainly not in the "overclockable DDR4-3200" kind of thing.
>
Crucial DDR4-2666 ECC UDIMM's overclock to DDR-3200 quite nicely with a Threadripper 3960X.
I've used the machine for around a year for HPC software development, which in addition to compiling involves running test cases that use most of it's 64G of RAM. I would not do this with non-ECC DIMM's. With ECC (which is supported on my motherboard) I've had no recorded memory errors yet.
