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That's what I'm talking about and I wouldn't call it "fully supported". I want to know about ECC statistics. It's important because if I can see that ECC recovers abnormally high number of errors, it's likely that I need to replace RAM right now.


ECC statistics are available for Ryzen if you use Linux (configured to load the appropriate EDAC module).

So on Linux, ECC is fully supported, even with Ryzen.


Do you know for which motherboards this is true? I think ASRock Rack X470D4U should be fine, as they market it as server board.

https://www.servethehome.com/asrock-rack-x470d4u-review-amd-...


I have used an older ASRock MB with the first generation Zen, and it was OK with ECC.

With Ryzen 3xxx, I have used ASUS Pro WS X570-ACE ($315), which is sold as a workstation board, so you definitely should expect ECC to work without problems, and also the Mini-ITX MB ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB3 ($230), which also worked OK.

I expect that the other ASRock MB's (most of them or maybe all of them specify the support of ECC) also work OK with ECC modules.

The ASrock Rack server board should also not have any problems with ECC. IIRC that server board supports only up to DDR4-2933, but until now faster unbuffered ECC memory modules were not sold anywhere, so that is not a disadvantage.

Edit: I have looked again at the ASRock site and they have updated the memory support specification. If you use only 2 UDIMM modules (i.e. up to 64 GB total), then you can use up to DDR4-3200 (which I have never seen offered anywhere until now; 2666 is easy to find, 2933 is also supported by Intel since March, so it should become available soon).


Sadly, the IPMI implementation in the X470D4U series is awful. The remote console crashes frequently and is generally pretty unreliable. I'm disappointed that Supermicro doesn't have any Ryzen AM4 server boards. AMD getting ignored by many of the server vendors is just a repeat of what happened when the Opteron series was first introduced. At least there are a number of Epyc server boards available.


I don't disagree with you, but when was the last time you ever had to replace a stick of ram?


This year for me.




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