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Dont count on laptops, Intel treats ECC as one of the market segmentation features. AMD on the other hand supports ECC on everything, even the lowest budget cpu

by rasz_pl 10y ago

Dont count on laptops, Intel treats ECC as one of the market segmentation features. AMD on the other hand supports ECC on everything, even the lowest budget cpu models.

Andys 10y ago
There is now a Mobile Xeon CPU, which is available in the Lenovo P50/P70 series, with ECC RAM.
- igravious 10y ago
  I priced it there, costs upwards of ~€3k
rlpb 10y ago
If the choice is between insecurity and ECC, market segmentation based on ECC may no longer be possible.
- dboreham 10y ago
  Another choice is : memory chips that work.
gsnedders 10y ago
As far as I'm aware, AMD don't support ECC on many APUs, which nowadays account for the majority of CPUs they sell.
- tmzt 10y ago
  I was trying to figure out the roadmap, pricing, and feature sets for their APUs. I gave up. I'm looking for a low-end APU with a fair amount of system ram (not dedicated vram) for use as a graphics coproccessor on a relatively slow bus. I'm finding high end CPUs with integrated graphics, and low-end CPU only chips. The only thing close to what I'm looking for is on an older process.
  - paulmd 10y ago
    I think you might be looking for Socket AM1, like the Athlon 5350. If you need ECC, get the Asus AM1M-A. None of the boards have more than 2 RAM slots though. If you have a Microcenter nearby, you can get a $40 discount on an AM1 bundle deal. The motherboard and CPU end up being about $40 total. It makes a decent little Unix server. The Intel J1800/J1900/J2900 boards are pretty cheap too but no ECC. Also, Asrock just announced its Goldmont-based J4205 board.
    - tmzt 10y ago
      Thanks, it's for an embedded development project so the low total price is very helpful.
- paulmd 10y ago
  Most APUs support it. Many motherboard manufacturers choose not to expose this capability and a few sockets don't even expose it. Kabini supports it. Construction cores support it. FM2+ does not, but the mobile socket version FP3 does.

by rasz_pl 10y ago

Dont count on laptops, Intel treats ECC as one of the market segmentation features. AMD on the other hand supports ECC on everything, even the lowest budget cpu models.

Andys 10y ago

There is now a Mobile Xeon CPU, which is available in the Lenovo P50/P70 series, with ECC RAM.

igravious 10y ago
I priced it there, costs upwards of ~€3k

rlpb 10y ago

If the choice is between insecurity and ECC, market segmentation based on ECC may no longer be possible.

dboreham 10y ago
Another choice is : memory chips that work.

gsnedders 10y ago

As far as I'm aware, AMD don't support ECC on many APUs, which nowadays account for the majority of CPUs they sell.

tmzt 10y ago
I was trying to figure out the roadmap, pricing, and feature sets for their APUs. I gave up. I'm looking for a low-end APU with a fair amount of system ram (not dedicated vram) for use as a graphics coproccessor on a relatively slow bus. I'm finding high end CPUs with integrated graphics, and low-end CPU only chips. The only thing close to what I'm looking for is on an older process.
- paulmd 10y ago
  I think you might be looking for Socket AM1, like the Athlon 5350. If you need ECC, get the Asus AM1M-A. None of the boards have more than 2 RAM slots though. If you have a Microcenter nearby, you can get a $40 discount on an AM1 bundle deal. The motherboard and CPU end up being about $40 total. It makes a decent little Unix server. The Intel J1800/J1900/J2900 boards are pretty cheap too but no ECC. Also, Asrock just announced its Goldmont-based J4205 board.
  - tmzt 10y ago
    Thanks, it's for an embedded development project so the low total price is very helpful.
paulmd 10y ago
Most APUs support it. Many motherboard manufacturers choose not to expose this capability and a few sockets don't even expose it. Kabini supports it. Construction cores support it. FM2+ does not, but the mobile socket version FP3 does.