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Excellent point. It's a shame and a travesty that data integrity is still mostly locked away inside servers, leaving most other computing devices effectively to

Excellent point. It's a shame and a travesty that data integrity is still mostly locked away inside servers, leaving most other computing devices effectively toys, the early prototype demo thing but then never finished and sold forever at inflated prices. I wish AMD would make ECC a properly advertised feature with clear motherboard support. At least DDR5 has some level of ECC.

kevin_thibedeau 1y ago
> At least DDR5 has some level of ECC. That is mostly to assist manufacturers in selling marginal chips with a few bad bits scattered around. It's really a step backwards in reliability.
wpm 1y ago
I wish AMD wouldn't gate APU ECC support behind unobtainium "PRO" SKUs they only give out, seemingly, to your typical "business" OEMs and the rare Chinese miniPC company.
- c0l0 1y ago
  It's not that dire as you make it out to be :) Both the 8700G and the 8700G PRO are readily available in the EU, and the PRO SKU is about 50% more expensive (EUR 120 in absolute numbers): https://geizhals.eu/?cmp=3096260&cmp=3096300&cmp=3200470&active=1 https://geizhals.eu/?cmp=3096260&cmp=3096300&cmp=3200470&act...
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