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There must be more to Xeons than being an i7 w/ ECC surely.
by igravious 10y ago
There must be more to Xeons than being an i7 w/ ECC surely.
- devereaux 10y agoIn practice? I don't know. i7 means IOMMU. That I care about. But it may be useless to most - like ECC. We have niche interests, and a few things that matter (IOMMU, ECC) Most people care about TDP or prices.
- ComputerGuru 10y agoSure, SGX, bigger L3, some virtualization features thrown in. But ECC is the only one that matters (the 6920HQ doesn't have virtualization support which I live and die by, but other i7 chips do). There are servers running i3 chipsets because for some bizarre reason, Intel has allowed using ECC RAM on i3 machines but not on i5 or i7.