7 Jun
2013
7 Jun
'13
8:05 a.m.
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 01:28:05PM -0400, Andrew Hoerter wrote:
[...]
I do appreciate the fact that AMD enables the use of
ECC memory on their
desktop processors/chipsets, whereas Intel deliberately prevents it to drive
more purchases of Xeons (at least, that seems like the obvious motivation).
That's the theory, but good luck finding a suitable desktop board that hasn't
outright disabled ECC, or has cocked up the implementation so it doesn't work
properly.
In any case, the price premium of a like-for-like Xeon and C204-based board
compared to an i5/i7 and Z77-based board is lost in the noise compared to how
much extra you'll spend on the ECC RAM.