[aportnoy]

> But the lack of ECC was a huge bummer at the time of purchasing my system.

Why?..

[dharmab]

Ever had to troubleshoot bit flips on a non-ECC system? One friend felt like he was going crazy as over the course of two months his system degraded from occasional random errors to random crashes, blue screens and finally to no POST. Another time, a coworker had to stare at raw bytestreams in Wireshark for hours to find a consistently flipped bit.

[aportnoy]

Don't overclock your memory.

[ceeam]

> Ever had to troubleshoot but flips on a non-ECC system?

No.

> One friend felt like he was going crazy

Tell him about memtest86.