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Re:ECC matters by lighttower on Sunday January 03, 2021 @04:31PM (#25625450)
Can you get decent battery life with this ecc memory in a laptop?
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Re:ECC matters by dijit on Sunday January 03, 2021 @05:06PM (#25625684)
Yes. ECC memory uses only marginally more power than non-ECC memory. And memory isn’t the largest consumer of battery life by a country mile.

Screen, Wi-Fi, and to a much lesser extent (unless under load) the CPU are the most major culprits of low battery life.

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Re:ECC matters by indolering on Sunday January 03, 2021 @05:21PM (#25625779)
It can actually reduce power consumption, because refresh rates don't need to be so high:

https://media-www.micron.com/-/media/client/global/documents...

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