I was just pointing out that there are currently MANY workstation systems that use ECC, Ryzen, Threadripper 1000 and 2000 and 3000 series, all use ECC and are great options right now, since Intel has NO HEDT solutions at the moment. We just need to know exactly what he does, and budget to recommend one
Remember, if you're just after ECC, Coffee Lake Refresh and Comet Lake Embedded i3 processors still support ECC ram.
Depends on his workload. If he's seriously considering a successor to Rocket Lake Xeons then I'm assuming he's already dismissed HEDT out-of-hand.
It does, technically. I'm having problems finding many reports of people actually using AM4 platform motherboards + ECC RAM for proper error-correction, though. Yes there are plenty (including nearly every ASRock board out there, I think?) that have UEFI settings to accommodate ECC, but confirmed reports of it actually functioning are scant at best. Some examples of people saying the opposite:
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: checke...
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Alder Lake has features that I find more compelling than another AM4 platform. For one, there will be some ATX W680 boards with a proper baseboard management controller. Check the ECC memory QVL lists for some of the X570 boards: it's really hit or miss.
Plus a garbage integrated GPU is better than nothing. QuickSync is useful for Plex or what have you. And PCIE 5.0 boot drive in the near future
This is what I get on my B550 Aorus Master and regular non-pro 3950x. I was getting same results on x470 Strix-F and AsRock x370 motherboards with 3700x/3900x/3950x. So supposedly it is working.
That said, I don't know what the system would do if it was to encounter an uncorrectable 2 bit memory error - I don't know if it would halt (preferred option) or would just log and continue (bad).
Also, not every motherboard explicitly states ECC ram support. I know from first hand experience AsRock, Asus, and Gigabyte stay true to supporting ECC ram just like their documentation says, however I noticed that MSI for example explicitly says it does not support ECC mode. I don't have any MSI AM4 motherboards to verify, but I would definitely avoid MSI if I were after ECC.
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Thanks guys for chiming in. Yes, I've long considered AMD as many claim they are often superior for video editing and are way more efficient. I'd like to attempt to merely delete some offensive scenes in my DVD and BD collection. I've heard that DVD quality rendering is not especially challenging with modern hardware but 1080p BD is certainly far more. More on that later.
But as pointed out by some of you, I've also heard that AMD motherboards are frequently not configured to enable ECC RAM; "hit or miss", as gdansk says here. So that immediately steered me to Xeon. BUT then I read just last week that Rocket lake efficiency disappointed reviewers.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/394...power-consumption-not-great-not-terrible.html
Again, I do zero gaming and would never be anything more challenging that 1080p editing, not at of all often. So would I be splitting hairs with Rocket lake versus Comet Lake, much less vs. Alder Lake on efficiency?
Or would it be a lot wiser to wait another ?? months for Xeon Alder lake to hit the shelves?
About TDP, am I wrong or isn't a cpu with higher TDP better? If TDP means that the chip is designed to work at 125 watt maximum rather than an 80 watt maximum, then won't the 125 watt cpu generate less heat and fan noise when doing a 55 watt work load than will the 80 watt cpu?
Likewise, won't the 125 watt cpu's idling temp be lower, or at least no higher, than the idling 80 watt cpu? If yes, then this comparative review of these two processors seems to say the opposite.
Ditto with the Comet Lake 1270 6 core and 1270 p 8 core?
So who's wrong?
Btw, is it true that Alder lake will run both DDR 4 and 5 ECC RAM? If yes, are the trade offs for cost, performance and heat/fan noise at all significant for my workload versus heat and fan noise criteria?
Finally, I will need another smaller form factor xeon desktop ASAP.
Such as
https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/Confi...151&catEntryId=3074457345619771818&quantity=1
or even something less robust, or perhaps a bit too much less.
Thoughts on those xeon desktops for my needs?
Also, please advise on compatible video cards for these two desktops for 1080p performance vs. fan noise.