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It is a shame they don't offer ECC memory for the Ryzen and Threadripper based systems. I built myself a Threadripper 2990WX based system a few months ago, and
by drewg123 8y ago
It is a shame they don't offer ECC memory for the Ryzen and Threadripper based systems.
I built myself a Threadripper 2990WX based system a few months ago, and the hardest part of the built was ECC support. In particular:
1) confirming ECC support on the mobo was not disabled by the mobo vendor
2) finding "reasonable" speed ECC UDIMMs (ended up w/2666) in a high enough density to reach at least 64GB.
I would have been happy to pay a premium to a company like system 76 in order to save days of research into different parts.
- kevinherron 8y agoWant to share what motherboard and memory you ended up with and where you got them from?
- drewg123 8y agoI have the older ASRock X399 Taichi. The BIOS is this odd mashup of glitzy OC features I'll never use combined with stuff they took directly from AMD without touching. There is even mention of the AMD XGBE SOC NICs in the BIOS (and they are not wired up). The worst thing about the BIOS is that I have some Micron U.2 NVMe drives whose option ROM causes the BIOS to hang about 9/10 times. If I disable legacy option ROMs, all is good until the next time the board loses power, when that setting is lost. Asrock's answer was 'reinstall windows' (which would be nice, but I have FreeBSD installed). I ended up getting Crucial CT16G4WFD8266 dimms. Crucial was painful to deal with, and kept cancelling my order because they "could not verify key information". I finally just ordered the mempory from provantage.com, for slightly less. The underlying micron part number from dmidecode is: 18ASF2G72AZ-2G6D1 If I was doing this today, I might wait for 2933 or even 3200 memory..