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Well then you don't have much to worry about, when a computer is idling its power draw is very small, about 30-40-50W.

I would like to know what the Tomb Raider settings were? Had to be pretty heavily tweaked to run at 4K 60FPS on an RTX 2060? Or just used one of the quality presets?

Yes, it is. A multi-bit error is so rare that when it happens it means something has gone fatally wrong, so you don't want to the machine to keep operating if you value your data at all, or if you want to be able to trust the results of whatever program(s) you're running.

Actually, like I wrote in the second paragraph (lol), most consumer Intel processors and chipsets don't support ECC. No Core i7s or Core i5s support it. A few Core i3s do (at least previous generations), and some Pentiums.

I think AMD has to release microcode that will allow BIOS manufacturers to unlock additional ECC-related settings, once that happens and a bit of driver/kernel work is done, then even 2-bit ECC should work in both Linux and Windows.

Well as I wrote - I tested it - and it worked fine in an ASUS X99-Deluxe II. Much to my surprise, believe me.

That would be the dream, but Intel will never allow that to happen, too much money to be made on Xeon chips...

To be fair, you can put a Xeon on an X99 motherboard and it will work with ECC memory, even Registered ECC memory, I've tested it.

As I wrote in the article, validation is never going to happen. But that hasn't stopped people from successfully using ECC on previous AMD platforms.

To be clear, they would have lost data without semi-ECC too, in whatever scenario you're creating. The current situation for most prosumer types isn't buy Ryzen or buy a proper ECC validated platform, since those platforms are out of the financial reach of most people. I wrote this article exactly so people wouldn't be buying into this blindly, which is what was happening before.

While there has been countless confirmations that ECC is supported by Ryzen processors and AM4 motherboards, and even one or two confirmations that it was actually enabled. I pretty sure this first confirmed tests that show that it's actually working, more or less. Article: http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/75030-ecc-memory-amds-ryzen-deep-dive.html