On 2017-03-04 Kevin McGregor wrote:
This is no different from past architectures, meaning that like in the past motherboard manufacturers will produce AM4 boards which fully support ECC (at a reasonable price) and are "certified" to work with ECC *by the motherboard manfacturer*.
Do you know offhand which mobo makers usually "certify" (or at least make very clear) their support of ECC? I know in the past I've had issues with chipsets/cpus that support ECC and boards that *purport* to, but really didn't.
Also, do you know if these "enthusiast" AMD chipsets/chips usually get support in the edac package (which can query the chipset and report ECC error counts)? It seems to cover only about 75% of the ECC chipsets/chips out there, even ones that have been around a while. (It takes someone who cares to write in support for it.)
So, I'm just going to wait a few months for the dust to settle then buy a Ryzen with an ECC-capable motherboard.
Sounds great, I'll keep my eyes out (and you keep us posted too!). Maybe when the time comes I'll price out a Xeon vs Ryzen comparison and post it.