Interesting reading about DIMMs

This ZDNET article DRAM error rates: Nightmare on DIMM street is very interesting. I'm sure glad I spent the extra few $$$s for ECC ram for my system.

Hmmm - but this survey was done on Google servers only, it appears. I also note Conclusion 4 where it states:

Conclusion 4: There is no evidence that newer generation DIMMs have worse error behavior. There has been much concern that advancing densities in DRAM technology will lead to higher rates of memory errors in future generations of DIMMs. We study DIMMs in six different platforms, which were introduced over a period of several years, and observe no evidence that CE rates increase with newer generations. In fact, the DIMMs used in the three most recent platforms exhibit lower CE rates, than the two older platforms, despite generally higher DIMM capacities. This indicates that improvements in technology are able to keep up with adversarial trends in DIMM scaling.

A good read - but no surprises.

True, but I'm still glad I bought ECC ram. The difference in $$ was around $4 per DIMM, welll worth the cost to me.

$4? Yeah, if your motherboard supports it, it may very well be worth it.