7 Jun
2013
7 Jun
'13
9:18 a.m.
On Fri, 7 Jun 2013, Peter Corlett wrote:
That's the theory, but good luck finding a
suitable desktop board that hasn't
outright disabled ECC, or has cocked up the implementation so it doesn't work
properly.
In any case, the price premium of a like-for-like Xeon and C204-based board
compared to an i5/i7 and Z77-based board is lost in the noise compared to how
much extra you'll spend on the ECC RAM.
The ignorant masses, who control most purchasing, think that non-parity,
non-ECC is "BETTER"!
"Parity/ECC/helmets/seatbelts cause more problems than they help"!
While I would much rather have had the 5150 give options of what to do
when a parity error occurs, I can see that most people would just keep
hitting "Ignore", and then later complaining how unreliable the machine
is. Ignoring errors gets higher user-satisfaction ratings.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com