HP Pro Tower 400 G9 ECC memory support

[Letrab]

Hi,

Does the HP Pro Tower 400 G9 support ECC memory?

I know it's comes pre-installed with non-ECC memory. But if I would upgrade to ECC memory, would it be compatible (mother board / BIOS)?

There is no reference in the specs for it (as opposed to some Z.. workstations)
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/ish_6181974-6182029-16

Thanks!

[Letrab]

Let me answer my own question:

As it uses the Intel Q670 chipset, https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/218827/intel-q670-chipset/specifications.html , which doesn't support ECC memory. It is clear that it is not supported...

[SDH]

That is interesting to know. When I looked up the fastest processor in that HP specs link you provided, at the Intel "Ark" site HERE, the processor is stated to support use of ECC memory:

However, I think you're right that the chipset's limitation would overrule the processor's capabilities.

[DGroves]

to "SDH" your observation on the chipset is correct regarding ECC memory support

currently intel's stance on ECC is to restrict it to Xeon based systems/chipsets and not the "consumer "i" 3/5/7 cpu's/chipsets in order to have a price difference the two 

however this was not always the case , earlier chipsets in the consumer space could support xeon/ECC even though it was not a officially supported feature by the motherboard maker in most cases

my Asus x99 motherboard will happily run ECC ram when the board is equipped with a xeon cpu even though asus never officially supported this feature

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/search/featurefilter.html?productType=873&0_StatusCodeTe...