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I think you're being a bit harsh to AMD on this, you still can run ECC on their consumer CPUs, you just need to research the motherboard because any motherboard

I think you're being a bit harsh to AMD on this, you still can run ECC on their consumer CPUs, you just need to research the motherboard because any motherboard/chipset combo could have ECC support. That Dell has the Intel W680 chipset that is responsible for giving any Intel CPU ECC, just more pointless market segmentation by Intel. I don't know if I would give Intel a glowing review for that, you can also buy an OEM system with an Ryzen Pro processor if you want that kind of ECC guarantee. You're not going to find Intel offerings with ECC solutions for light laptops either right now.

mixmastamyk 3y ago
> Just need to do a bunch of research and trial and error Or just buy one? > buy an OEM system Who sells certified ECC systems with AMD at similar prices? I did look but didn’t find much already assembled.
- undersuit 3y ago
  >Who sells certified ECC systems with AMD at similar prices? I don't think you can blame AMD for the OEMs choices. Lenovo does compete in a way. You have to buy a GPU on their Threadripper workstations because of no iGPU for the computer to fall back on like the Dell's Intel iGPU. Also your Dell comes with 1 non-ECC 8GB DIMM standard, you have to pay $247 to upgrade to an ECC DIMM. Lenovos Threadrippers come with the ECC standard and can even run registered DIMMs. But yeah it is a $2500k Threadripper workstation with no GPU compared to a $1300 I5 workstation with no GPU. If you want to build an ECC AMD system some manufacturers want your money: https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/h13sae-mf https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/h13sae-mf Frankly "shopping" OEM sites makes me crazy and it's why I build my own.