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Sooo, @savagepain's RAM is faulty now.  The psu probably didn't outright kill it but damaged it.

  1. ARikozuM

    ARikozuM

    That sucks... I don't have any DDR4 on hand. 

  2. Skanky Sylveon
  3. pizapower

    pizapower

    @Skanky Sylveon Very nice gift for your girlfriend.

  4. Windows7ge

    Windows7ge

    Hmm...do you think some of this would work in it?

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  5. Skanky Sylveon

    Skanky Sylveon

    @Windows7ge The motherboard that she's getting from me is an ASUS x399a, which doesn't support ECC RAM.  I already ordered her some RAM anyway. 

    But thanks for the offer. 

  6. Windows7ge

    Windows7ge

    It was a joke :p. The day consumer motherboards support 64GB DIMMs will be the day I'm truly happy. Is it the ASUS PRIME? I only recently purchased that one. Currently trying to get GPU pass-though going on it.

  7. Skanky Sylveon

    Skanky Sylveon

    @Windows7ge My asrock tr4 officially supports ECC RAM.  Threadripper can actually handle a lot of RAM due to it more or less being an EPYC with two less dies.

  8. Windows7ge

    Windows7ge

    ECC isn't that important in regards as to weather or not a board will work with it. If a board/CPU doesn't support it it'll still accept the RAM just the ECC function won't work.

     

    What will hurt compatibility is Registered Memory (RDIMM vs UDIMM) most desktop and even enthusiast platforms will not run at all with RDIMMs installed. It does appear TR can support a massive amount of RAM but non-server motherboards have little to no RDIMM support so unless you can find 64GB UDIMM modules then yeah, it won't work but ECC has nothing to do with it.

  9. Skanky Sylveon

    Skanky Sylveon

    @Windows7ge I don't think that you can find 64GB unbuffered RAM sticks.

  10. ARikozuM

    ARikozuM

    They'll come along at some point. 

  11. Windows7ge

    Windows7ge

    @Skanky Sylveon My point exactly. That's why I'm yet to be truly happy. Alternatively more desktop boards could just start supporting RDIMM. That'd work too. There tends to be a bit of a performance hit though. There's always a trade-off.

  12. ARikozuM

    ARikozuM

    I would hope that AMD could support ECC on all of their chipsets. That would be a win/win for them and consumers. 

  13. Skanky Sylveon

    Skanky Sylveon

    @ARikozuM I think that the vast majority of even workstation workloads wouldn't really benefit from ECC.

     

    Although a freenas build using ryzen would be nice, and the lack of ECC support really hurts that.

  14. ARikozuM

    ARikozuM

    ECC doesn't have a large drawback on performance. Most games aren't going to be affected, but the OS, kernel, and rendering programs would benefit from having an extra check digit to verify that the address data is correct. 

  15. Skanky Sylveon

    Skanky Sylveon

    Most operating systems have some minor built in error checking either way. 

     

    I would rather have the increased mhz speed.

  16. Windows7ge

    Windows7ge

    I'd rather have more RAM.

     

    Parallel processing FTW

  17. Skanky Sylveon

    Skanky Sylveon

    @Windows7ge Fair enough, although I don't have a workload that needs that much RAM.

  18. ARikozuM

    ARikozuM

    Home server?

  19. Windows7ge

    Windows7ge

    Oh jesus I do, I put together a VM server and have been burning though 128GB of RAM. The good news is it's DDR3 and I can pick-up 512GB in 32GB DIMM modules on the used market for around $1,000. I can probably find them cheaper than that even if I search some more.

  20. Skanky Sylveon

    Skanky Sylveon

    Quote

     I put together a VM server

    *@TopHatProductions115 wants to know your location*

  21. TopHatProductions115

    TopHatProductions115

    ECC is cheaper in some instances, so there's that benefit too (since almost no one in the consumer sector wants to buy it). Which means you all make it easier for me to go DDR3 shopping :3

  22. Windows7ge

    Windows7ge

    If he's putting together a VM server I wouldn't mind helping.

  23. TopHatProductions115

    TopHatProductions115

    @Windows7ge

    Same as before. Look in the comments for more details on the software (VM) configuration that is planned...

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