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Re:Intel is reducing server chip pricing in attempt to stem ... by billsnow on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @11:56AM (#28526691)
ECC support is an actual +10-20% cost in materials for the motherboard and DIMM manufacturers. Also, ECC errors are basically non-existent on desktop/laptop workloads. ECC is worth the extra cost in servers, but for desktops and laptops, the market got it right.
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Re:Intel is reducing server chip pricing in attempt to stem ... by s1dev on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @12:01PM (#28526769)
A consumer PC should see a single bit error roughly once a week. That’s hardly non-existent
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Re:Intel is reducing server chip pricing in attempt to stem ... by billsnow on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @02:27PM (#28528745)
According to who? I checked the edac module for a year on my work machine, and it never detected a single error. I know I'm just one anecdote, but I doubt I'm that lucky.
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Re:Intel is reducing server chip pricing in attempt to stem ... by s1dev on Thursday September 16, 2021 @02:17PM (#28555176)
Here's a few references

https://doi.org/10.1145/2492101.1555372

https://doi.org/10.1145/2786763.2694348

https://doi.org/10.1109/DSN.2015.57

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Re:Intel is reducing server chip pricing in attempt to stem ... by Filligree on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @12:52PM (#28527484)
Worst case those just trash some family photos of a dead relative. Hardly anything important.

/s

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