Sooo, @savagepain's RAM is faulty now. The psu probably didn't outright kill it but damaged it.
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That sucks... I don't have any DDR4 on hand.
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@ARikozuM I already ordered her this.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07B4G525F?ref=ppx_pt2_mob_b_prod_image
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@Skanky Sylveon Very nice gift for your girlfriend.
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@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.
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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.
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@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.
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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.
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@Windows7ge I don't think that you can find 64GB unbuffered RAM sticks.
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@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.
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@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.
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I'd rather have more RAM.
Parallel processing FTW
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@Windows7ge Fair enough, although I don't have a workload that needs that much RAM.
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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.
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I put together a VM server
*@TopHatProductions115 wants to know your location*
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@Windows7ge
Same as before. Look in the comments for more details on the software (VM) configuration that is planned...