Thank you for the suggestion. I am surprised how cheap these can be. It has been years since I assembled a system from parts so I had been looking at complete workstations from vendors, but for that much cost saving it is worth considering parts-assembly.

> Forget about desktop processors and buy yourself a double-socket LGA2011v3 board and some engineering-sample Xeons. Then you can address that kind of memory and run ECC.

If you follow this very thread, you'll notice that another user already complained that "you need to pony up for a Xeon workstation if you need more than 64 GB."

"Ponying up" here means, in context, Xeon processors that are several thousand dollars each. In contrast, the grandparent was wishing that he could use a Zen that cost several hundred dollars instead.

I was pointing out that there were other processors already on the market that met his requirements: Xeon engineering samples, which most people don't think about when they are talking about the costs of high-end Xeon workstations.

(This is partially because they are not "finished" products like retail chips. Clocks are lower, and you need to use motherboards/BIOSs from a specific compatibility list, and they are not something you can source from Intel. Thus, they slip many people's minds because they aren't something you would consider for an actual server deployment - but they are perfect for a workstation with specialty needs that needs to hit a tight budget)

So yes, I did actually read the thread. You just didn't grasp enough of the context to make a sensible response and figured it was the perfect time for a superslam "did you even read bro?" gotcha response.

Typically this sort of response is not welcome on HN. If you don't have something substantiate to post, please don't post at all.