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I really really wish ECC were available on desktops and laptops. Why are my programs and data less important than a servers? This is an area where AMD could cat

by mark-r 12y ago

I really really wish ECC were available on desktops and laptops. Why are my programs and data less important than a servers? This is an area where AMD could catch Intel sleeping if they implemented it across the line, but unfortunately I don't see a way to make the public care enough to count.

tracker1 12y ago
IIRC some ASUS boards for AMD desktop CPUs suport ECC (Unregistered). Discovered this after I had already setup my ZFS homebrew NAS box, but after all the trouble I had with it, going back to Synology. And an FX-8350 is plenty fast for most uses... especially if you are using all the cors (running server VMs, docker, etc). All of that said, a Core i3-5010U has almost the same single-core performance and 40% the multicore while using less than 1/8 the power... I can now just run two systems, one for the server, another for my desktop and still see less power. After getting said CPU in a Brix box for my HTPC, I'm considering such a move for my next home desktop (still a year off though).