ECC is not only enabled on Ryzen, but it works! ...Sort of.

[Patrick_M]

Hey, so I hope you don't find this too self-promotional, but I did write my article with this forum in mind.

Basically, I didn't find confirmations that ECC was enabled on Ryzen to be sufficient, so I actually tested to see if the feature was actually functional.

I kind of spoiled the ending in my title here, but if you're interested this is my article: http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...ws/75030-ecc-memory-amds-ryzen-deep-dive.html

 

[Dice]

ping @Ericloewe might tickle your interests.

 

[Ericloewe]

ping @Ericloewe might tickle your interests.

Yeah, but we're still missing server motherboards.

Hey, so I hope you don't find this too self-promotional, but I did write my article with this forum in mind.

Basically, I didn't find confirmations that ECC was enabled on Ryzen to be sufficient, so I actually tested to see if the feature was actually functional.

I kind of spoiled the ending in my title here, but if you're interested this is my article: http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...ws/75030-ecc-memory-amds-ryzen-deep-dive.html

Very interesting, I'd never thought about the overclocking method of inducing errors. Too bad it wouldn't work with server boards, because it would make things much easier for everyone.

 

[Caterpillar_]

Hi, did you test AMD Ryzen on FreeNAS?

 

[anodos]

Yeah, but we're still missing server motherboards.


Very interesting, I'd never thought about the overclocking method of inducing errors. Too bad it wouldn't work with server boards, because it would make things much easier for everyone.

If nothing else, it verifies that Ryzen on the desktop platform is able to correct single-bit errors. This is I think perfectly acceptable for home users who are on the cautious side (with the caveat that the results might be specific to certain motherboard + CPU combinations). I think we can expect at least similar performance levels on server hardware.

It also helps to understand what vendors might mean when they say "supports ECC memory in non-ECC mode".