Wait, so you already have ECC RAM and 2 AM4 motherboards working with ECC? Isn’t that 90% of the battle, figuring out which boards will function with it? All you would need is an APU to jam in and test. Maybe someone can lend you one, or there is a 2200G for sale here $65 + shipping that you could likely resell if it doesn’t pan out.
I have yet to see any real evidence of this actually working and only conjecture. I doubt there are many/any people here willing to do this except maybe Wendell (he appears to have the hardware). Given that you already have motherboards (plural) known to work with ECC and other CPU’s, you are probably the most reliable person here to test an APU.
If you want something done, well, you know the saying.
Last year I also tested several motherboards using a 2400G with 2x16GB Crucial DDR4-2400 ECC but found no indication that ECC was active. There are several reddit posts discussing this as well and to date no one has offered solid evidence that ECC works with the APUs. I ended up getting some low-end PCIe x1 video cards for my Ryzen 3 1200-based servers and have been running them with ECC RAM.
If AMD says it doesnt not support it why would anyone need to prove you wrong? They dont owe anything to the end users and its nice they have it enabled on most chips and not just a few like intel. Are we really expecting something to change?
Confused Raven ridge is the only APU family so what does that have to do with anything? So why would an architecture = support into a family that none of them are in
(further research " ***ECC is not disabled. It works, but not validated for our consumer client platform.***" admintted to it being not disabled but not tested makes sense to not list it
I think the conclusion here is that it’s up to the board OEMs to write it in if it is indeed working in hw(spurious reports both ways on that), and none of them have bothered or no one interested has gotten lucky with their board and documented it
A conclusion would be definitive. So far nobody has actually done what some people suggest should/might/could maybe work. So there is no conclusion.
That is the point of this topic.
Anyone with new information of value is welcome to share.
Anyone who doesn’t see the value in this topic is welcome to leave.
Except he has two boards working with other CPU’s but don’t work with APU’s. Important info for the first post that was omitted, otherwise I wouldn’t have bothered following this thread. Clearly too niche for anyone else to bother with it. I guess I forgot the part in the beginning that he had used an APU because I was going to look into procuring one for testing. Since that isn’t the case and can no longer be of any help I will leave.
