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That's awesome, I think this is the perfect CPU for my next ZFS NAS. If you try to find ECC support in Intel's lineup, it's hard to find much. Either the low end Pentium, or the high end Xeon ($$$).
Although right now there's a bricking bug to worry about, so maybe not that particular one right away.
That's awesome, I think this is the perfect CPU for my next ZFS NAS. If you try to find ECC support in Intel's lineup, it's hard to find much. Either the low end Pentium, or the high end Xeon ($$$).
I disagree with the title, I don't think it says all Ryzen will support ECC. >>4 x DIMM, Max. 64GB, DDR4 2666/2400/2133 MHz ECC and non-ECC, Non-ECC, Un-buffered Memory That looks like a motherboard spec - because it is. And it supports Ryzen processors of various types. I read that as: One CPU supports "ECC and non-ECC", another CPU specifies "Non-ECC". At least that's how I read it. Otherwise there is no reason to…
Keep in mind these are motherboard specs. I would suggest not reading too much into them.
I am quite excited about Zen, but I hope they will make consumer motherboards that support more than 64GB RAM.
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Enterprises are also professional cost cutters, so if AMD can provide enterprise-class features for less, then they will find a market.
That's demonstrably not true, AMD has supported ECC more or less across the board since the Athlon64. Enterprises may be professional cost cutters, but before that they're professional ass coverers, otherwise Oracle would have died 20 years ago.
Even if Ryzen will be twice as fast enterprise will still go with Intel. Unless some company with reasonable size (like DigitalOcean or Linode) will adopt Ryzen in their servers and brag about it.
I disagree with the title, I don't think it says all Ryzen will support ECC. >>4 x DIMM, Max. 64GB, DDR4 2666/2400/2133 MHz ECC and non-ECC, Non-ECC, Un-buffered Memory That looks like a motherboard spec - because it is. And it supports Ryzen processors of various types. I read that as: One CPU supports "ECC and non-ECC", another CPU specifies "Non-ECC". At least that's how I read it. Otherwise there is no reason to…
Can someone tell me how many errors over the past 10 years or so would have been fixed by ECC memory. I've no idea at all how much better it would be and what the current error rate it prevents is? It sounds more nice to have than vital? Is there a performance cost to it at all?
So this would effectively compete against the newer Skylake/Kaby Lake Xeons, especially with them being only 4 core vs 8 for Zen.
Who needs a Xeon now? The only chink in the armour here is the 64GB max, which admittedly is bad for the science/Machine learning folks, but the vast majority of these chips is used for databases, web serving, app serving, etc, for which these ECC-enabled Ryzens are a game changer on price. Cluster them up on premises or in cloud, and you're looking at a total winner, especially that the 16GB dimms are still much che…
Do we know anything more about what Ryzen supports in terms of memory? Eg, number of memory channels, speed, etc?
I think one issue is the amount, I was under the impression am4 was only going to support 64gb.