Why your next home computer should be an old Xeon workstation (2019)

Re:Why your next home computer should be an old Xeon worksta... by theevilsharpie on Saturday July 02, 2022 @02:02PM (#31961043)

ECC is working just fine on my Ryzen-based machine.

    PS C:\> wmic CPU get Name
    Name
    AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor

    PS C:\> wmic Baseboard get Product,Manufacturer
    Manufacturer  Product
    ASRock        B450M Pro4

    PS C:\> wmic MemoryChip get Manufacturer,PartNumber,BankLabel,Capacity,Speed
    BankLabel     Capacity     Manufacturer  PartNumber        Speed
    P0 CHANNEL A  17179869184  Kingston      9965745-002.A00G  2667
    P0 CHANNEL A  17179869184  Kingston      9965745-002.A00G  2667
    P0 CHANNEL B  17179869184  Kingston      9965745-002.A00G  2667
    P0 CHANNEL B  17179869184  Kingston      9965745-002.A00G  2667

    PS C:\> wmic MemPhysical get MemoryErrorCorrection
    MemoryErrorCorrection
    6                       # "6" is Multi-bit ECC

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Re:Why your next home computer should be an old Xeon worksta... by jeffbee on Saturday July 02, 2022 @02:35PM (#31961258)

ASRock has universally working implementations. I should not have said "the only way" when I meant "the only reliable way that does not require you to carefully parse thousands of forum comments to figure out which Asus or Gigabyte motherboard does or does not support ECC".

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Re:Why your next home computer should be an old Xeon worksta... by watersb on Saturday July 02, 2022 @08:42PM (#31963937)

I am in the middle of an Intel Xeon build and I happen to agree.

Searching for a simple answer to question: "does this CPU + chipset + this particular motherboard actually support ECC DRAM" is infuriating.

Thousands of words on the RGB lighting and the overclocking tweaks, silence on ECC support. It's insane.

Went through four rounds of ECC DRAM (that was on the manufacturer's supported config list) on a Gigabyte board, never got it to POST.

I finally gave up on that one. Bought an Asus X99 WS setup, with Xeon and RAM, from a vendor on eBay.

I can fix simple things, but debugging a configuration in this gamer-saturated market is beyond my current skill level. Once I have at least something working end-to-end, I can bootstrap up to a working machine. But the dead stare of failed POST was a tough one.

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