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>These days though, people are probably better off buying an appropriate Ryzen processor and motherboard that explicitly supports ECC. As I pointed out before,

>These days though, people are probably better off buying an appropriate Ryzen processor and motherboard that explicitly supports ECC. As I pointed out before, you can't do that for a media server. Transcoding is necessary for many (most?) users. >That's not really relevant to the point of them only allowing ECC on Xeon chips though. They do (or at least did) support ECC on non-Xeon chips. That's a distinction without a difference: those other non-Xeon chips aren't useful if you can't even buy them because you're not an OEM.

justinclift 2y ago
They look pretty easily available to me, or are you going to exclude Ebay now as well? https://www.ebay.com/itm/305342386279 https://www.ebay.com/itm/305342386279 (note: I don't know the seller)
- shiroiushi 2y ago
  Yes, I'd exclude anything on the secondhand market, especially things you have to buy from overseas sellers where there's no possibility of support or returns. This is not like a normal new part where you can purchase it firsthand and expect it to perform as advertised or else get a refund. Furthermore, the (Intel) chipsets on motherboards sold to consumers don't normally support ECC either, so it seems you'd have to get something that's not designed to Intel specifications, probably on Aliexpress, so it's questionable if ECC would even work, and you can certainly forget about any warranty or returns. Seriously, if you can't just buy it at Best Buy/NewEgg/Amazon (not from 3rd-party overseas sellers), then it's not applicable to this discussion at all.
  - justinclift 2y ago
    > if you can't just buy it at Best Buy/NewEgg/Amazon (not from 3rd-party overseas sellers), then it's not applicable to this discussion at all. Maybe the problems you were having with sourcing the cpus you wanted have something to do with the arbitrary limitations you were working under? Meanwhile, other people (as per sibling comment) were able to buy these same chips without issue. ;)

justinclift 2y ago

They look pretty easily available to me, or are you going to exclude Ebay now as well? https://www.ebay.com/itm/305342386279 https://www.ebay.com/itm/305342386279 (note: I don't know the seller)

shiroiushi 2y ago
Yes, I'd exclude anything on the secondhand market, especially things you have to buy from overseas sellers where there's no possibility of support or returns. This is not like a normal new part where you can purchase it firsthand and expect it to perform as advertised or else get a refund. Furthermore, the (Intel) chipsets on motherboards sold to consumers don't normally support ECC either, so it seems you'd have to get something that's not designed to Intel specifications, probably on Aliexpress, so it's questionable if ECC would even work, and you can certainly forget about any warranty or returns. Seriously, if you can't just buy it at Best Buy/NewEgg/Amazon (not from 3rd-party overseas sellers), then it's not applicable to this discussion at all.
- justinclift 2y ago
  > if you can't just buy it at Best Buy/NewEgg/Amazon (not from 3rd-party overseas sellers), then it's not applicable to this discussion at all. Maybe the problems you were having with sourcing the cpus you wanted have something to do with the arbitrary limitations you were working under? Meanwhile, other people (as per sibling comment) were able to buy these same chips without issue. ;)