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Re:I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D by moffkalast on Monday September 08, 2025 @06:53AM (#45166775)
Do you live at a very high altitude with a significant amount of solar radiation, or at an underfunded radiology lab or perhaps near a uranium deposit or a melted down nuclear reactor? Because the average machine should never see a memory bit flip error at all during its entire lifetime.
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Re:I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D by rkomorn on Monday September 08, 2025 @06:56AM (#45166798)
Then how do you explain all the bugs in the software I write?!
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Re:I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D by moffkalast on Monday September 08, 2025 @06:58AM (#45166809)
It truly is a cosmic mystery :)
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Re:I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D by yndoendo on Monday September 08, 2025 @11:37AM (#45169652)
Bit flipping can be the byproduct of bow the system components harmonize. Role hammer RAM also has the same affect. [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer

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Re:I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D by moffkalast on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @05:10PM (#45189198)
> Furthermore, research shows that precisely targeted three-bit Rowhammer flips prevents ECC memory from noticing the modifications.

Doesn't exactly sound like a use case for ECC memory, given that it can't correct these attacks. Interesting though, I'd have thought that virtual addresses would've largely fixed this.

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