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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: ECC on June 27, 2016, 05:19:22 am
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Hi All.
I am looking to put together a workstation/gaming rig based around either the GA-X170-Extreme ECC, or the GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 motherboard. Having read several papers on DRAM errors, I am interested in hearing from owners of the former as to the rate of correctable and uncorrectable errors they are experiencing.
One of the papers I read (Schroeder, Pinheiro et al) concludes that the rate of correctable errors is in the range of 25K to 70K errors per billion device hours per Mbit. Thus, for a machine with 64GB of memory running 24/7, it would experience over 300K correctable errors per year! Given this sounds like an awfully large number, I would like a sanity check based on actual owner experience before I spend my hard-earned money on one system or the other.