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minus-squarestrifegroove@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoIssue is that the production is for server gear not consumer. So it’s U2 and other connectors rather than SATA. Same goes for RAM it’s ECC and won’t work in normal consumer PCs (AMD has like unofficial support)
minus-square1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·5 months agoUnbuffered ECC DIMMs can be used as-is even on PCs not supporting ECC Registered DIMMs can be unsoldered and the RAM chips reused in a pinch converting them to unbuffered DIMMs I suppose? But reports of manufacturing capacity being moved to HBM will not benefit consumers if the bubble bursts.
Issue is that the production is for server gear not consumer. So it’s U2 and other connectors rather than SATA.
Same goes for RAM it’s ECC and won’t work in normal consumer PCs (AMD has like unofficial support)
Unbuffered ECC DIMMs can be used as-is even on PCs not supporting ECC
Registered DIMMs can be unsoldered and the RAM chips reused in a pinch converting them to unbuffered DIMMs I suppose?
But reports of manufacturing capacity being moved to HBM will not benefit consumers if the bubble bursts.