Re:The Huge Premium Intel Is Charging for Skylake Xeons
by Klinky on Friday September 01, 2017 @04:13PM
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There has been one Pentium and i3 that are unlocked since the start of the Nehalem era.
What's up with the i3-6320 supporting ECC but the i3-7320 no longer supporting it? Intel is at the least, very inconsistent with ECC on the consumer side.
Re:The Huge Premium Intel Is Charging for Skylake Xeons
by temac on Friday September 01, 2017 @07:48PM
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ECC was probably not for consumers. I think they needed to have an offering for processors smaller than E3 for pro needs, and somehow merged it with some i3. Also check for embedded options: those are basically LTS, so low volume and/or high latency designed specialty electronics can use them without having to update all the time. I've not checked if there still are some offering on some newer gen i3, but Intel can very well have internal restructuring between their consumer and their pro-branch, which I remember having read are not very integrated...
> And only [1] i5/i7 offer unlocked multiplers.
These statements are false, which you yourself acknowledge later in your post. You don't get credit for noting a caveat when the caveat is that your point is entirely false, at least in my book.
Intel no longer manufactures 2-core Xeons so Pentiums and i3s support ECC nowadays. This isn't uncommon, this has been the norm literally since they stopped making 2C Xeons (Haswell?).
And there are currently unlocked i3s in the lineup, just like there have been unlocked Pentiums in the past. It's the norm that Intel offers a barnburner overclockable SKU somewhere in the low end. They don't always, but they do it probably every other generation.