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They have internal ECC coz that allows them to have higher yields, what could be considered faulty chip in DDR4 can be now sold in DDR5. So it is effectively cost-reducing measure for them. Exposing that to the user not only would cost extra pennies, but potentially have uses go "hey, this stick is shit, look at how many correctable errors it is producing, please replace it"


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