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Depends what you mean by supported. Semi-offically: ECC is not disabled. It works, but not validated for our consumer client platform. Validated means run it
by js2 6y ago
Depends what you mean by supported. Semi-offically:
ECC is not disabled. It works, but not validated for our consumer client platform.
Validated means run it through server/workstation grade testing. For the first Ryzen processors, focused on the prosumer / gaming market, this feature is enabled and working but not validated by AMD. You should not have issues creating a whitebox homelab or NAS with ECC memory enabled.
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- loeg 6y agoYour quote is for consumer platforms (Ryzen) only; GP's statement was that ECC is not well-supported on AMD at all, which is obviously false (EPYC, Threadripper).
- theevilsharpie 6y agoAMD may claim not to validate ECC on Ryzen, but it's working well enough for major motherboard vendors to market Ryzen motherboards with ECC advertised as a feature. ECC support not being "validated," for all practical purposes, simply means that board vendors can advertise a board lacking ECC support as compatible with AMD's AM4 platform, without getting a nasty letter from AMD's lawyers.
- adrian_b 6y agoYes there is a risk to buy a Ryzen CPU with non-functional ECC. However, I use only computers with ECC, previously only Xeons, but in the last years I have replaced many of them with Ryzens, all of which work OK with ECC memory. When having to choose between a very small risk of losing the price of a CPU and having to use for sure, during many years, an Intel CPU with half of the AMD speed, the choice was very obvious for me.