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Re:Why your next home computer should be an old Xeon worksta... by the_only_law on Saturday July 02, 2022 @12:01PM (#31960140)
Yeah I looked at old Xeon workstations a while back because they were dirt cheap for what seemed like a ton of compute, but they were incomparable to just getting a good Ryzen or something. Newer Xeons might be better but I'm not paying for that.
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Re:Why your next home computer should be an old Xeon worksta... by johnebgd on Saturday July 02, 2022 @02:55PM (#31961392)
Ryzen supporting ECC memory really does make the old Xeon argument futile.
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Re:Why your next home computer should be an old Xeon worksta... by Teever on Saturday July 02, 2022 @03:18PM (#31961537)
Does Ryzen actually support ECC though? I bought a first gen Ryzen and couldn't get ECC ram to boot on it, and the reviews I read periodically of new Ryzen CPUs and mobos seem to indicate that it's still hit and miss.

I'd love for it to be plug and play.

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Re:Why your next home computer should be an old Xeon worksta... by Handytinge on Thursday July 14, 2022 @12:46PM (#32098430)
No.

Certain boards (mostly ASRock) will boot with it, but AMD don't support it outside the Pro series, and you won't get full reporting.

I've been down this rabbit hole for a while with NAS builds, and it's simply not worth AMD if you need ECC currently for anything not too high end.

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Re:Why your next home computer should be an old Xeon worksta... by tpolzer on Saturday July 02, 2022 @05:16PM (#31962507)
Depending on board support you might get actual error correction or not.

If it doesn't boot, it's very likely that you actually bought registered memory, which is normal in servers, but _not_ supported at all by Ryzen processors, no matter the mainboard.

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Re:Why your next home computer should be an old Xeon worksta... by type0 on Saturday July 02, 2022 @07:52PM (#31963627)
Not first gen, that one was very picky about ram settings even for the regular sticks. Also motherboard plays a huge role in how well that actually works.
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