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From: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: Ryzen issues on FreeBSD ?
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On 28 Jan, Pete French wrote:
>>> I'm about ready to have a party.  My Ryzen 5 1600 has been up for over 8
>>> days so far after changing the memory to a slower speed.  System load
>>> hovers around .3
>>
>> I couldn't find an easy way to down-speed my memory in the bios :(
> 
> Out of interest, what motherboards are people using ? I still havent
> built my test system, desite being the OP in the thread, but I have
> an MSI B350 Tomahawk as the test board.

Gigabyte AX370 Gaming 5.

I'd be wary of the B350 boards with the higher TDP eight core Ryzen CPUs
since the VRMs on the cheaper boards tend to have less robust VRM
designs.

Personally I won't put together a system without ECC RAM both for
overall reliability and also the fact that the error reporting will
immediately flag (or eliminate) RAM issues when the system is unstable.
That pretty much confined my motherboard choices to the higher end X370
motherboards.  I think only ASRock makes a B350 motherboard with ECC
support.  There's no reason that ECC support couldn't be universal other
than product differentiation so that the motherboard manufacturers can
collect more $$$ from anyone who cares about this feature.