https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/to-ecc-or-not-to-ecc/37...
Interestingly, Jeff Atwood has changed his mind on ECC memory.
Interestingly, Jeff Atwood has changed his mind on ECC memory.
Extra weird is Nvidia singling out ray tracing as a use case which shouldn't use ECC... I suppose it's no biggie if a single ray goes the wrong way down the BVH, out of trillions.
Intel's marketing ploy on ECC is very desctructive and have costed many parties a lot of wasted time money & resources to handle problems caused by non-ECC memory ; and Linux Torvalds is absolutely right in roasting them for this.