Comment by spockz

2 months ago

I have a silent hope that because of this change we all will get ECC ram and that consumer CPUs will get proper support for them.

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bayindirh  2 months ago

AMD's RYZEN already supports it. ASUStor's latest generation of NAS devices come with AMD x86_64 processors and ECC RAM as a standard, but ECC RAM in SODIMM format was not cheap, even when the RAM was cheap, either.

  • eggsome  2 months ago

    As someone trying to spec out a Ryzen workstation right now I can tell you it's actually harder because Ryzen (unlike EPIC) uses UDIMM ECC, not RDIMM ECC. It's a niche that very few companies wanted to service before AI ram madness. Now the only vendor I can find is v-color:

    https://v-color.net/products/ddr5-ecc-oc-u-dimm-server-memor...

    But they no longer have 6000mhz stuff in stock (which is ideal for Ryzen due to the 1 to 1 speed match to the memory controller).

    It's frustrating :(

  • spockz  2 months ago

    I understood that support for ECC ram also depended on the motherboard but not sure. When selecting Ryzens, I only recall seeing many disclaimers for RAM support. Not sure to the causes though.