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ponzi
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Aside from mixing stick timings, if all the sticks are identical, never had any sort of problem with DIMM over the decades. I had a server-type mobo and ran ecc for a while and the mobo failed. Got a replacement server-type mobo from a different manufacturer and that failed as well. So, I was not getting lots of benefit from ECC, and didn't see the point of the extra cost.
But its been maybe 30 years since I had a retail-type mobo fail.
This isn't too unknown, unfortunately. The server boards are made in smaller quantity and are less debugged via RMAs.
In the context of this thread we were talking about consumer type boards that happen to take ECC UDIMMs (unbuffered). These are normal mass-produced consumer boards, most of the better AMD board support ECC UDIMMs except for MSI. I use Asus prime boards. They serve me well and support ECC (on AMD).