This is no longer true either. Intel has consumer desktop Celeron, Pentium, and i3 series chips that support ECC. The i3's in particular are fairly popular wit

This is no longer true either. Intel has consumer desktop Celeron, Pentium, and i3 series chips that support ECC. The i3's in particular are fairly popular with FreeNAS users. http://ark.intel.com/search/advanced?s=t&SocketsSupported=FCLGA1150&ECCMemory=true http://ark.intel.com/search/advanced?s=t&SocketsSupported=FC...