Monday, September 16th 2024
AMD EPYC 4124P Quad-core Overclocked to 6.70 GHz on Desktop Motherboard
AMD released its EPYC 4004 series Socket AM5 processors for small-business servers, which come in unique core and clock speed configurations not found on the client Ryzen series, such as 4-core/8-thread and the 28-lane PCIe Gen 5 I/O die. The EPYC 4124P is such a processor, and it turns out that the chip works on regular AM5 desktop motherboards, but with a special BIOS. Sergmann and Darkgregor built such contraptions, put it under liquid nitrogen cooling, and embarked on an overclocking adventure. They achieved a 6.70 GHz bench-stable all-core overclock, a huge upgrade from the 3.80 GHz base frequency. With this, the user was able to break many benchmark records for native quad-core processors (i.e. processors with 4 cores that aren't higher core-count chips with cores disabled in the BIOS).
Sources:
VideoCardz, HXL (Twitter)
19 Comments on AMD EPYC 4124P Quad-core Overclocked to 6.70 GHz on Desktop Motherboard
-- I saw those processors a while ago. I'm not sure if any mainboard vendor mentions those cpus in the support list. My mainbaord did not mention any of those processors as supported.
Maybe someone knows which AGESa supports those processors and on which mainboards.
Edit: Interestingly that CPU compatibility list does not include the 4-core 4124P.
I checked 3 random B650 Gigabyte boards and none claim support. Two MSI boards also don't claim support. 3 AsRock boards also don't.
I suspect those EPYCs will work fine with the Zen 5-capable AGESA, but only ASUS claims official support with ECC RAM.
I am going for the ultimate stability in an ITX build.
"A User" ?
Name is literally in the Desktopwallpaper. No reason to keep secrets.
For the ASUS board I linked ECC-DIMM is indicated as supported for both 9950X and 4584PX.
If you want a fully supported setup you have to check the board's documentation.
Also, the manual for the board has not been released yet.
Thank you!
What is your reason for wanting ECC RDIMM support? Those won't work on AM5 (or LGA1700), on any board. Only UDIMMs will.
So I wanted to the homework to see IF the Epyc style processor in this main streem motherboard Asus E870-I (ITX) motherboard will make this work out.
Team Group - EXPERT DDR5 DESKTOP MEMORY WHITE 96GB(2x48GB) 6800MHz CL36 (images.teamgroupinc.com/products/memory/u-dimm/ddr5/expert/spec-sheet/expert-en.pdf)
GKill - F5-5600J4040D48GX2-FX5 Flare X5 DDR5-5600 CL40-40-40-89 1.25V 96GB (2x48GB) (www.gskill.com/specification/165/396/1683011081/F5-5600J4040D48GX2-FX5-Specification)
For ECC UDIMMs you need to look at the server/workstation market, for example Kingston KSM56E46BD8KM-48HM.
Look on the right side of this page. It states this ram has Unregistered ECC ram support - is this not the same?
www.teamgroupinc.com/en/product-detail/memory/T-CREATE/expert-u-dimm-ddr5-black/expert-u-dimm-ddr5-black-CTCED596G6800HC36DDC01/ According to T-Create - DDR5 memory supports On-die ECC debugging mechanism, providing error correction and detection features to make the system more stable while pursuing performance.
I don't think this is intended for what was done in the news post and discussed in the thread but interesting none the less.
The second and more traditional ECC is module-wide. The entire DIMM is protected by adding extra physical RAM chips to each module so that they can store recovery information. This error correction is providing feedback to the motherboard and the operating system. One bit errors are fixed automatically and they are reported so that the system knows a potential problem has corrected and was corrected. Two bit errors are reported as a critical error so the OS knows that RAM is broken.
This makes ECC, or "true ECC" RAM more expensive - each DIMM contains 2 extra chips (or 4 depending on size).
Some vendors use this ambiguity to advertise their products ass "DDR5 ECC" which is technically correct when you consider the mandatory on-die ECC for DDR5, but it's not the "true ECC" that most people want.
Registered DIMMs are always "true ECC", but UDIMMs are not. Only server/workstation UDIMMs do have this feature.
I do second this motion as well, and it would be nice to also state the nature of the OC (Liquid nitrogen) in the title.
it was not Sergmann who used an asus rog x670e gene but me Darkgregor
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