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yndoendo ◴[] No.42169367[source]
Worked on building a new desktop this month. Most AMD consumer CPUs support unbuffered ECC RAM to help protect against inflight bit flipped. DDR5 standard has chip level built-in ECC to protect bit flipping on the RAM but not in-flight. Went with Kingston again because CORSAIR only sells quad-kits. Dual-kits should be a thing with CORSAIR because most iATX motherboards only have two slots for RAM. Kingston marketing and sales understand this.

My POV, ECC should be standard for inflight on all desktops. The majority of desktop (business and education) is used for content creation versus pure content consumption. And ECC needs to ditch 1 bit and move to 2 bit or more masking.

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1. wtallis ◴[] No.42170722[source]
> Went with Kingston again because CORSAIR only sells quad-kits.

What?

https://www.corsair.com/us/en/c/memory/ddr5-ram

Plenty of two-stick kits there. Were you just trying to make up an excuse to pick Kingston over Corsair?