I think almost all problems with my computers so far have been bad memory or OCZ SSDs. But the performance hit you take for games and some other things is also very real and big. The very best DDR4 ECC memory on the market is DDR4-3600 CL16-19-19-39, which a) is not a good bin to start with, almost certainly with bad tertiary timings and b) costs more than twice as much as equivalent non-ECC.
That's just more market segmentation. If Intel had smartly made ECC a standard feature, we'd just have high speed ECC kits with good timings aimed at enthusiasts. There's no technical limitation on ECC that stops you from running the chips fast at increased voltage.
Well sure, but that's because there's little demand for fast ecc memory by the gaming crowd due to the aforementioned market segmentation. There's no substantial limitation on ddr speed due to ECC itself.
Wow that's a name I haven't heard in a LONG time...
Is there a name for the phenomenon where you don't hear about something for years, but you don't notice until it's mentioned, and suddenly you go "Wait...what happened to them?"
I'm fairly sure I had a 128 GB OCZ SSD back in the day.
I had a couple of OCZ drives. They were pretty flaky and unreliable. The Intel X25–M drives were really the first production ready consumer drives that I ever used. I still have one going to this day 13 years later. My Intel hardware in general has been as bulletproof as hardware gets. I actually believe Intel is underrated and underappreciated. Their quality assurance while not perfect, is the best. My current system is 100% Intel and Samsung.
