What is misleading about that? I merely stated that they are the same chip at the start, but Intel deactivates features on the extreme series to segregate the m

What is misleading about that? I merely stated that they are the same chip at the start, but Intel deactivates features on the extreme series to segregate the market (nothing wrong with that). Also see my edit of my original post where I mistakenly misread "line" as "chip" as stated. > They bin things for a reason. Yes, of course, so that the extreme series doesn't cut into the margins of the server market. If you could run RAID 5 and 10 without hardware dongles and ECC on the extreme series some smaller companies would probably prefer the i9 18 core for 2000$ to the 3000-4000$ 18 core Xeons. Again, this is fine, but Xeons and extreme series start of as the same chip. That's all I wanted to say on top of my correction of my original post.