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I went ECC a couple months ago and managed to find some parts that didn't break the bank, mostly because I held back and stayed a generation behind: GA-6UASL3,
by mng2 12y ago
I went ECC a couple months ago and managed to find some parts that didn't break the bank, mostly because I held back and stayed a generation behind: GA-6UASL3, E3-1230V2. There are other sacrifices: the motherboard is rather no-frills, and the memory bandwidth isn't that great.
Besides price, another issue against server hardware is that it's generally designed for a server case and therefore doesn't play well with enthusiast cases. The board I got is a little odd in that it uses a layout more typical of consumer boards, though the socket placement is still not ideal.
- simoncion 12y agoOne of the reasons I went with AMD processors and mobo chipsets for my non-laptop system (and recommend them for anyone who's not concerned about performance per watt) is because AMD doesn't segment the market by processor features. You choose based on power budget, thermal budget, and presence of on-die graphics. Regardless of how you choose, all processors in a given generation (back to at least the Phenom series and associated mobo chipsets) have ECC support, virtualization support, and whatever other fancy features were slapped in in that generation.
- tracker1 12y agoMost MB vendors (other than ASUS) disable ECC for non-server cpu's... Also, it's Unbuffered ECC, not Registered ECC for those looking, and unsure.