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Re:I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D by swinglock on Sunday September 07, 2025 @05:06AM (#45156594)
Excellent point. It's a shame and a travesty that data integrity is still mostly locked away inside servers, leaving most other computing devices effectively toys, the early prototype demo thing but then never finished and sold forever at inflated prices.

I wish AMD would make ECC a properly advertised feature with clear motherboard support. At least DDR5 has some level of ECC.

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Re:I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D by kevin_thibedeau on Sunday September 07, 2025 @08:38PM (#45163656)
> At least DDR5 has some level of ECC.

That is mostly to assist manufacturers in selling marginal chips with a few bad bits scattered around. It's really a step backwards in reliability.

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Re:I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D by wpm on Monday September 08, 2025 @01:17AM (#45164840)
I wish AMD wouldn't gate APU ECC support behind unobtainium "PRO" SKUs they only give out, seemingly, to your typical "business" OEMs and the rare Chinese miniPC company.
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Re:I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D by c0l0 on Monday September 08, 2025 @08:27AM (#45167444)
It's not that dire as you make it out to be :)

Both the 8700G and the 8700G PRO are readily available in the EU, and the PRO SKU is about 50% more expensive (EUR 120 in absolute numbers): https://geizhals.eu/?cmp=3096260&cmp=3096300&cmp=3200470&act...

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