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New workstation Xeons (Comet Lake), e.g. Xeon W-1250, W-1270, W-1290 are hard to find online but can be seen, in few places, for 350,500,800 euro. Motherboards
by effie 6y ago
New workstation Xeons (Comet Lake), e.g. Xeon W-1250, W-1270, W-1290 are hard to find online but can be seen, in few places, for 350,500,800 euro. Motherboards for these Xeons (socket LGA1200) seem to be a somewhat pricier at 300 euro, but they positively have ECC. Intel still costs more for same perf/capabilities, but if you need ECC and Intel platform, it isn't crazy.
Most people wanting ECC just for the warm fuzzy enthusiast feeling would prefer Ryzen with good MB that supports ECC. Intel makes more sense at the high-end many-core Xeons, due to supporting huge memory with much higher throughput (LGA3647). But that segment is bonkers-expensive.
- floatboth 6y agoThat's an interesting kind of enthusiasm. The usual PC enthusiast thing is to overclock memory to hell until the system starts glitching and dial it back just a little and call it a day :)
- vbezhenar 6y agoI don't feel myself confident with flaky hardware. I'm using UPS and ECC, so I can be sure that no bugs are introduced by hardware issues. I would love to use GPU with ECC, but they are ridiculously priced, so I'm out of luck. That's not a real need, of course, it's just some kind of whim, but if I can pay for it, why not. Just like those crazy overclocker dudes pay for their whims.