> I always disliked Intel's strategy for market segmentation by disabling specific instructions, The efficiency cores don’t have AVX-512 because they’re low po

> I always disliked Intel's strategy for market segmentation by disabling specific instructions, The efficiency cores don’t have AVX-512 because they’re low power, simplified cores. This mod required disabling the efficiency cores, reducing core count anyway. It wasn’t actually a free upgrade. > I much prefer AMD's strategy of segmenting just by speed and number of cores I’ve been using ECC RAM with AMD consumer parts, but it’s not all smooth sailing. The ECC support in their consumer parts isn’t officially supported, so it has been extremely difficult to determine if it’s even working at all. There are long forum threads where many people have tried to confirm it with mixed results. AMD may unofficially leave these features in place, but it turns out unofficial support isn’t all that straightforward.