alt Hacker NewsKeep scoffing, it's not real end to end ECC, just "link" ecc, which is just part of the chip -> CPU pipeline.
So it's not full ECC like servers have with dimms with a multiple of 9 chips with ECC protecting everything from the dimms to the CPU.
Keep in mind the ram is inside the strix halo package, not something HP has control over.
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> Keep in mind the ram is inside the strix halo package, not something HP has control over.
It's not in the package, it's on the motherboard spread around the SoC package: https://www.hp.com/content/dam/sites/worldwide/personal-comp...
The 8 DRAM packages pretty clearly indicate you're not getting the extra capacity for end-to-end ECC as you would on a typical workstation or server memory module.
Wait is there any actual difference in the RAM between the HP and the Framework Desktop?
You're right, I had asked my HP specialist to confirm that it was ECC, and he had said yes, but when I prompted him again on the distinction between link ECC (protects data in motion) vs true on-die ECC (protects data at rest in RAM, much more important), he admitted it was the former and canceled my order.
I now ordered a Beelink GTR9 Pro, which unlike the Framework has dual 10G Ethernet, not the weird 5G flavor. We'll see how that goes.