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Re:To ECC or Not to ECC by davidy123 on Friday November 20, 2015 @10:26AM (#10601608)
Asrock's X99 boards can accept Xeons and ECC memory.
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Re:To ECC or Not to ECC by sireat on Monday November 23, 2015 @07:22AM (#10614168)
Nice catch!

You have to give props for Asrock as they are frequently offering unique motherboard features (like that mini-ITX X99 etc).

However, it still does not change the fact that Xeon v3 models are slower(tops at 3.9Ghz Turbo) single threaded than Haswell-E, so it is the same story just a different chipset, either you get fast single threaded performance with Haswell-E or you get Xeon with ECC.

Take these somewhat similar chips: http://ark.intel.com/products/82931/Intel-Core-i7-5930K-Proc... http://ark.intel.com/products/81900/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-...

Why can't we have 5930k with ECC support? Because then some thrifty IT managers would buy those for their low end server needs.

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