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I recall hearing that certain motherboard manufacturers were disabling ECC for their lower-end AMD boards. Does anyone know if this was ever confirmed or not?
by Rychard 8y ago
I recall hearing that certain motherboard manufacturers were disabling ECC for their lower-end AMD boards.
Does anyone know if this was ever confirmed or not?
- fierarul 8y agoMy newly purchased Gigabyte B450M DS3H, says clearly 'Dual Channel Non-ECC Unbuffered DDR4, 4 DIMMs'. https://www.gigabyte.com/us/Motherboard/B450M-DS3H-rev-10#kf https://www.gigabyte.com/us/Motherboard/B450M-DS3H-rev-10#kf It also mentions that: >Support for ECC Un-buffered DIMM 1Rx8/2Rx8 memory modules (operate in non-ECC mode) Note the operate in non-ECC mode remark. Seems pretty clear to me. The CPU might allow ECC but now it's the motherboard playing tricks.
- pgeorgi 8y agoplaying tricks as in not routing the extra lines
- fierarul 8y agoI don't know the hardware details, but as a buyer this is like moving the goalpost. It was always the CPU that didn't have ECC, but now apparently your whole system has to be designed to be a fancy workstation. Everybody keeps repeating AMD supports ECC out of the box, but the fact that you will most likely not have an AM4 motherboard which does have ECC enabled is new to me.
- llampx 8y agoI also have a Gigabyte motherboard. Pretty disappointed that it doesn't have ECC support. For my next machine I will look more closely.