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dishsoap06/15/20251 replyview on HN

True, although the i2c controller that the dimms are connected to is an entirely separate device from the i2c controller in the gpu that's connected to the display ports. As long as you know what you're doing the risk is not significant.


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dougg306/15/2025

Yeah, if you are 100% confident you're using your GPU's I2C controller it's probably fine, but the reason I warned about it repeatedly in the post was because I stumbled upon this GitHub issue where two people accidentally flashed their RAM SPD:

https://github.com/bulletmark/edid-rw/issues/5

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