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Dylan16807 on Oct 16, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: I *detest* the crazy industry politics that made E...

I feel like changing the width of some of the IO components on the modules is closer to "tweaking" than to "completely changing".

I wasn't trying to suggest you could do it by changing only the memory controllers and not the DIMMs.

Tuna-Fish on Oct 18, 2022 [–]

Ah. If you make any silicon changes at all, it is orders of magnitude more expensive and "harder" than just using extra chips like normal ECC DRAM does.

Dylan16807 on Oct 18, 2022 | [–]

I'm suggesting a change JEDEC could have made when incrementing the DDR number, basically.

Especially since the ECC overhead on DDR5 is so high.

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