• Arghblarg
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    1 year ago

    Many people have strong opinions on why ECC RAM is not the standard in modern PCs… cosmic rays definitely can be a problem.

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      1 year ago

      Despite ECC RAM being essentially a hard-to-find specialty part, it typically only costs about 20 percent more per DIMM than non-ECC does at retail. The real problem is that without motherboards and CPUs which support it, it won’t do you any good.

      In case anyone here is looking for non-server hardware with true ECC RAM support (not to be confused with the inferior “on-die” ECC):

      • Most Asus socket AM5 motherboards support ECC.
      • The CPUs that fit those motherboards also support it.
      • These Kingston ECC DIMMs are unbuffered, and fit those motherboards. They use Hynix DRAM chips (M-die, I think).
      • These Micron ECC DIMMs are also unbuffered, and should work as well. (Note that the part numbers may vary in retail listings.)
  • IninewCrow
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    Cosmic rays already cause errors in our world … by randomly interfering with DNA and causing tiny little errors which lead to mutations

    But those mutations also lead to genetic evolution that allow future generations to either fail … or adapt to new environments

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      1 year ago

      Yes, the video covers this.