Frank McCoy wrote:
> In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Matt <m.p.boulton@durham.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> For an average consumer such as myself, should I save some pennies
>> and get unbuffered and unregistered RAM, or is their a genuine
>> benefit to me?
>
> *IF* your motherboard supports buffered and registered ECC RAM, then
> get ECC RAM. If not, then don't bother. Most don't (but should).
> ;-{

Doesn't the cache on the CPU (L1 and L2) have ECC? At one time, at
least, I thought I read it did. However, just like Al Dykes, my wetware
is showing the problem of years of cosmic ( and other) rays over the
years.