Re:ECC RAM on AMD Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPUs
by ThePowerOfFuet on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @12:46AM
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> I wonder if modern RAM sticks use chips with on-die ECC.
DDR5 does, AFAIK, but it is not a replacement for running it 72 bits wide like previous off-die ECC systems.
Incidentally the RAM on a Raspberry Pi 4B (and CM4) is feported to use ECC RAM, but this is not the same as discussed here. It's on die ECC and the purpose is to improve yield of the chips. ECC errors are corrected and not reported via H/W. ECC errors that cannot be corrected (I suppose) are just read out as incorrect data. I wonder if modern RAM sticks use chips with on-die ECC.