Re:I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D
by tiberious726 on Sunday September 14, 2025 @05:14PM
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The extra unused memory might even act as shielding to cosmic rays, but the extra electrical load on the memory controller might more than balance that out for unbuffered sticks
No. Or well, not exactly. More bits will flip randomly, but if between the two systems only the total installed memory changed, both systems will see the same amount of memory errors, because bit flips on the additional 48 GB will not result in errors, because they will not be used. Memory errors scale with memory used not with memory installed.