On 2010-03-15 Kevin McGregor wrote:
This ASUS board seems to support ECC: http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/PID-MX23640(ME).aspx
http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/PID-MX23640(ME).aspxI think all AMD CPUs, even low-end ones, support it via the on-chip memory controller (unlike Intel); I don't know what it takes, if anything, to support ECC on the motherboard if the CPU/memory-controller does. Anyway, they don't seem to be hard to find in the AMD arena.
Hmm, the sites do seem to suggest it does ECC. Though I've learned in the past that sometimes even sites/manuals/bios's that say ECC, do not do ECC!
If it does do ECC, perhaps it is because these are AMD chipsets, and not NV or ATI. That would make sense as the real AMD ones are usually better. Most of the AMD-compatible mobos you see these days are NV or ATI.
So perhaps there is a cheap(er) way to get ECC than Intel-based workstation boards. However, based on past experience I'd be loathe to switch to AMD from Intel. No flame war here, just cold hard experience selling these things for 11 years. If AMD is still giving cheap ECC, seems to me that Intel is royally screwing up by not providing something that can compete.
Adam?