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I agree and it's one of the reasons it's much easier to go with AMD for cheap home servers/NAS (HP Microserver line is great for example) as Intel tends to rese
by pedrocr 13y ago
I agree and it's one of the reasons it's much easier to go with AMD for cheap home servers/NAS (HP Microserver line is great for example) as Intel tends to reserve ECC for very expensive parts.
What doesn't seem easy is to get ECC in laptops. I don't think even traditionally business-focused lines have it (e.g., Thinkpads).
- stassats 13y agoNowadays you can get ECC with intel for quite cheap: http://ark.intel.com/search/advanced/?s=t&MarketSegment=DT&ECCMemory=true http://ark.intel.com/search/advanced/?s=t&MarketSegment=DT&E...
- pedrocr 13y agoThat's good to know. It seems the issue is actually motherboard support. Newegg shows a single intel motherboard with ECC and no AMD ones. I suppose the low-end server hardware (e.g., HP Microservers) just tend to be AMD so it's easiest to get a cheap AMD server with ECC than an Intel one. I had assumed it was an intel issue but apparently not. It would be nice if the intel ultrabook standard started including ECC as well. One can dream...
- Freaky 13y agoOn LGA1150 you need a C22x chipset for ECC support: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/chipsets/server-chipsets/server-chipset-c222-c224-c226.html http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/chipsets/server-chips... Prices for these start about 3x higher than other boards, their choice is extremely limited, and availability even more so :/
- asdfs 13y agoUnfortunately while the CPUs themselves are quite reasonable, motherboards tend to be far more expensive and less available. I wonder how much of a markup Intel has on the server chipsets vs. desktop ones; it'd be interesting to know whether Intel or motherboard manufacturers are making bank on the boards.