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Is there a certain or measurable advantage to using ECC RAM in a desktop PC?
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I fuss a lot over building stable machines -- in that I absolutely hate crashes, reboots, funny behaviour, etc. -- and so error-correcting a.k.a. ECC RAM would seem to solve a big problem: memory errors. But does it really work? Is there a measurable advantage, e.g. less crashes or other behaviour?…
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I've used ECC ram in servers for a few years now. ECC really shines when you are using your machine heavily, as in "it's on more than 12-16 hours a day". Little whitebox servers I've built without ECC have, sooner or later, developed "issues" that r…
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