AMD Threadripper prices undercut Intel's Core i9 by as much as $1,000

Re:AMD Threadripper prices undercut Intel's Core i9 by as mu... by sliken on Friday July 14, 2017 @08:02PM (#14774216)

Mainly I was hoping to buy a thread ripper instead of a RYZEN 1700 (for $300) and getting more memory bandwidth. I was hoping that with AMD pushing so far on more cores that AMD would push more memory bandwidth to lower price points.

I'm all for ECC, but the Ryzen ECC situation is a mess. Some boards don't mention it, some boards mention ECC, but don't differentiate between ECC dimms "working" and actually correcting errors.

If ECC is your priority seems like a Xeon E3-1230 or similar is an easier decision. With that said is there a known motherboard + ryzen combination that A) works, B) is available, C) is verified to actually correct bits, and D) talks to the Linux MCE widgets to the OS can track it?

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Re:AMD Threadripper prices undercut Intel's Core i9 by as mu... by hossbeast on Friday July 14, 2017 @08:16PM (#14774292)

My Asus + Ryzen build definitely does not talk MCE in a way that Linux understands

https://serverfault.com/questions/858884/spontaneous-reboot-...

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Re:AMD Threadripper prices undercut Intel's Core i9 by as mu... by tw04 on Friday July 14, 2017 @11:34PM (#14774919)

There is a list being actively managed around ECC support:

http://www.overclock.net/t/1629642/ryzen-ecc-motherboards

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