> ECC availability matters a lot - exactly because Intel has been instrumental in killing the whole ECC industry with it's horribly bad market segmentation. Th

> ECC availability matters a lot - exactly because Intel has been instrumental in killing the whole ECC industry with it's horribly bad market segmentation. The phrase that strikes me is "horribly bad market segmentation". I agree 100%. Remember when the Pentium/pro/2/3 could operate in single and dual socket configurations with ECC? The same CPU that plugged into your low end consumer board could also plug into a high end server/workstation board. All you needed was the right motherboard.