Comment on Micron Says AI-Driven Memory Crunch is ‘Unprecedented’
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 3 weeks agoECC might be slower but if a ton of it floods the market all at once it could still be a good 2x64 GB purchase. Plus, it’ll be great for selfhosts even if not for gamers.
Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
You can’t put the kind of memory used in servers (registered ECC dimm) into normal/personal computers. It’s not just that the ECC won’t work, they don’t work at all.
That’s different with unregistered ECC dimms, those will work (at normal spec speeds), but the ECC part will just be unused. These are in the minority though for servers, in practice they are more used in workstations.
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Servers are just computers. You can game on the same hardware the form factor is easy to get around
Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Why did you just ignore everything I wrote, but you still replied to me? No, it isn’t easy to get around. You can use a server to game, but the server mainboards and CPUs expect and work with differently configured memory (registered DIMMs). All the AI infratructure uses that type. You can’t use that memory in a normal PC. Wikipedia reference if you’d like to read about it, but a relevant quote:
You would have to un-solder all the chips and remanufacture new memory modules, and nobody is doing that, especially not at scale. It might be an actual buisness model to do that once the bubble pops, but it isn’t a problem that’s “easy to get around”.>
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I game on a server cpu on a server mb with rdimm memory shrug
When the bubble pops I’m down to make gaming pcs out of old AI nodes