Update on AM5 ECC Support

Agreed. Without official statement, it can stop working after any random BIOS update, and you'd be screwed.

I'm also no longer interested in AsRockRack boards, because their support is like the 10th thought.

The last official BIOS release for my X470D4U is from Aug, 2021, with AGESA 1.2.0.0. Even the last beta BIOS stopped at Jun, 2022 at AGESA 1.2.0.7.

Consumer boards went past that to 8, A, and now at 1.2.0.B. Most of the latter releases contain security fixes, which I'd think is MORE important for AsRockRack boards.

As far as I'm concerned, AsRock (marketing? bean counters? who cares?) has made their decision, with not mentioning explicit ECC support with AM5 generation.

That's one of the reasons why I've not purchased a single AM5 board, even though I own ten AsRock (including one AsRockRack) AM4 boards.

As I understand, even on AsRock AM4 boards, the error reporting doesn't work properly unless you're using PRO CPU/APU. Correction works with regular CPU, which is better than nothing. ECC simply doesn't work with regular APU, but that is true for all vendors and has been known forever.

If I'm buying a new board, I'm going for the "SUS" brand, as what I'm reading online says theirs work for both correcting and reporting, when their spec states support, even on non-PRO CPUs. Again, PRO is required for APUs as before.


Edited by eccential - 27 Oct 2023 at 5:05pm