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Re:Framework Laptop 13 Pro by babylon5 on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @04:07PM (#47853861)
No mention of ECC RAM, the single thing that I wanted from an upgrade for a decade? Why do chip makers refuse to take our money?

A few years ago we were told only "Pro" parts have ECC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37828168

Re:Framework Laptop 13 Pro by vizzier on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @04:11PM (#47853923)
to be fair, your money isn't as good as VC money for RAM at the moment
Re:Framework Laptop 13 Pro by babylon5 on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @04:23PM (#47854074)
Are Nvidia using ecc ram? If not this should mean it is less supply constrained than regular ram.
Re:Framework Laptop 13 Pro by vizzier on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @04:42PM (#47854271)
I'm open to being wrong, but so far as I understand it ECC mostly lives at the controller level and shares the same DRAM chips across all forms of server memory (including non-ecc), which is why we see price increases across all sectors including consumer.

Those DRAM chips being the bottleneck that would require hard to build new silicon fabs to increase supply.

Re:Framework Laptop 13 Pro by Melatonic on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @04:30PM (#47854146)
Do mobile CPU's and northbridges support ECC?
Re:Framework Laptop 13 Pro by babylon5 on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @01:02AM (#47859251)
Handheld mobile no. Laptops could, but rarely/never do due to policy not technical requirements.
Re:Framework Laptop 13 Pro by morserer on Thursday April 23, 2026 @05:56AM (#47873880)
Confused, doesn't all DDR5 support inline ECC by default? Or are you talking about the ability to enable it in the BIOS/OS?
Re:Framework Laptop 13 Pro by cromka on Thursday April 23, 2026 @06:32PM (#47883052)
You mean On-die ECC. That's not the same as regular ECC.