• roofuskit@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Not really. It’s just a normal Zen 4 CPU with some server features like ECC memory support.

    The biggest downfall of these chips is they have the same 28 PCI-E lanes as any consumer grade Zen 4 CPU. Quite the difference between that and the cheapest EPYC CPUs outside the 4000 series.

    You’re going to run in to some serious I/O shortages if trying to fit a 10gbe card, an HBA card for storage, and a graphics card or two and some NVME drives.

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      6 months ago

      Not really. It’s just a normal Zen 4 CPU with some server features like ECC memory support.

      I’m pretty sure all the Zen CPUs have supported ECC memory, ever since the first generation of them.

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        6 months ago

        A lot of the Zen based APUs don’t support ECC. The next thing is if it supports registered or unregistered modules - everything up to threadripper is unregistered (though I think some of the pro parts are registered), Epycs are registered.

        That makes a huge difference in how much RAM you can add, and how much you pay for it.

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        6 months ago

        Not officially. Only Ryzen Pro have official (unregistered) ECC support and not many motherboards support it either. AFAIK Threadripper doesn’t officially support it either but I could be wrong.