[Gllug] RAM in Intel boxes is very power hungry

[Peter Childs]

2009/2/9 Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk>:
> On 9 Feb 2009, t. clarke stated:
>
>> By the way,  for my money,  ECC memory on a server is the only way to go - I
>> have seen too many PCs fall over due to flaky 'ordinary' memory.
>
> Not just that. Natural radioactivity probably flips a bit a week or
> thereabouts given current memory densities and the amount of RAM in most
> machines, these days. (Warning: genuine BOTE guesswork.)
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Mind you I've seen Servers with ECC memory fall over with memory errors,...

Peter.
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