Jukka Larja (roskakori2006.delete@this.gmail.com) on January 2, 2021 11:10 pm wrote:
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> > Go out and search for ECC DIMMs - it's really hard to find. Yes - probably entirely thanks
> > to AMD - it may have been gotten slightly better lately, but that's exactly my point.
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> It wasn't hard at all. I bought mine (about a month ago) from a small family business. Other small retailer
> also had ECC DIMMs available, but the first one was selling the sort of Ethernet cables I needed so I chose
> them instead. Only hard part was that I accidentally ordered buffered DIMMs instead of unbuffered first.

Back before Intel made ECC support Xeon only, unbuffered ECC DIMMs were much more readily available.

> AMD has Pro series available, but it's OEM only, has less models than standard (especially missing equivalent
> top model), and every model is slower than equivalent standard model. So worse in every way except ECC.

I recently built two Ryzen based ECC systems and on one of them, I would have used a Pro CPU had it been available but they are OEM only. So I ended up having to buy an extra graphics card that I would not otherwise have needed.