Is it true all Asrock AM4 motherboards support ECC memory?

[Deadtravller]

Planning on building a Ryzen system and want to use ECC RAM, as Linus recently talked about. Apparently, every Asrock AM4 motherboards supports ECC. Is this true? 
 

The motherboards I’m thinking about specifically are either the ASRock X570 Creator or the ASRock X470 Taichi Ultimate.

 

Update: checked the spec sheet for these boards on ASRock’s website. In the case of the X570 chipset, it needs the Pro version of a CPU if it’s in the Picasso lineup, and the X470 needs a Pro version of a CPU if it’s in the Picasso or Raven Ridge lineup.

Edited February 15, 2021 by Deadtravller
Update

[Kilrah]

The specs page for those boards is very detailed about that.

[minibois]

Are you sure he said "AsRock" and not "AsRock Rack", which is AsRock's server equipment subsidiary?

I think the whole ECC thing was a bit more complicated, since some boards claimed to support it, while it was only a thing of "ECC memory works in our board as normal memory, not with the ECC capabilities".

[Deadtravller]

7 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

The specs page for those boards is very detailed about that.

I’ll check them out, thanks.

[Deadtravller]

Just now, Deadtravller said:

I’ll check them out, thanks.

 

8 minutes ago, minibois said:

Are you sure he said "AsRock" and not "AsRock Rack", which is AsRock's server equipment subsidiary?

I think the whole ECC thing was a bit more complicated, since some boards claimed to support it, while it was only a thing of "ECC memory works in our board as normal memory, not with the ECC capabilities".

I have the information about AsRock from a post on a different forum, unrelated to Linus’s video.

 

I believe ECC works in all AM4 boards. What I’m looking for, and what Linus was talking about, was boards that actually supported the error-checking.

[paddy-stone]

No, ECC RAM will "work" in the motherboards in general, just not using the ECC functions/ability IIRC. But check with the actual motherboard specs just to be sure.

[keysbeast]

from what ive seen you have to have a ryzen pro for ecc on asrock boads i have 4 different asrock mobos 

 

[Deadtravller]

2 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:

No, ECC RAM will "work" in the motherboards in general, just not using the ECC functions/ability IIRC. But check with the actual motherboard specs just to be sure.

Again, I believe all AM4 motherboards will work properly with ECC in them (i.e they will boot, RAM will run at right speeds, etc), but it won’t actually check for errors. I’m specifically looking for boards that do check errors with ECC memory. These do exist, as Linus said in a recent video, but the only list of ones that do I’ve been able to find is a list of Asus ones on their own forums, and that a) MSI and Gigabyte don’t have any boards that do error-checking, and b) all of ASRock’s ones do.

[Deadtravller]

2 hours ago, keysbeast said:

from what ive seen you have to have a ryzen pro for ecc on asrock boads i have 4 different asrock mobos 

 

Ryzen Pro? I’ll look into that, ok.

[Kilrah]

That's only for APUs if I'm not mistaken again the detail is on the spec page.

[Deadtravller]

2 hours ago, keysbeast said:

from what ive seen you have to have a ryzen pro for ecc on asrock boads i have 4 different asrock mobos 

 

Update: checked with the two motherboards I listed in my post. The X570 only needs Pro CPUs if you want to use the Picasso lineup (Ryzen 3000 series APUs) and the X470 needs Pro CPUs only in the case you want to use it with the aforementioned Picasso lineup or the Raven Ridge lineup (Ryzen 2000 series APUs). Since Picasso is just Raven Ridge shrunk down by two nanometers, I can see how this would make sense.