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Re:AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Beats Intel’s Core i7-9700K in Cinebench by paulmd on Thursday June 20, 2019 @12:14PM (#20234308)
Since Haswell, ECC support has been on (Core-based desktop) Celerons, Pentiums, i3s, and Xeons. It's quite straightforward, when they pulled 2C Xeons off the market they added it to the consumer processors instead, but they still want to retain Xeon sales for the higher-end products so they lock it off on the i5s/i7s/i9s.

Of course you need to know what you're looking at, the suffix of the number matters a lot (eg 7100 vs 7100U), but that is nothing Intel-specific. A Ryzen 2700 and a Ryzen 2700U are very different processors as well.

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Re:AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Beats Intel’s Core i7-9700K in Cinebench by throwaway2048 on Thursday June 20, 2019 @12:53PM (#20234766)
The issue isn't that somehow the 7100U vs 7100 is some fundamental design decision that didn't include ECC support, its that Intel had a chip where ECC was supported, then disabled it.

Its not because they are "very different processors".

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Re:AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Beats Intel’s Core i7-9700K in Cinebench by paulmd on Thursday June 20, 2019 @01:55PM (#20235410)
The 7100U is a BGA laptop processor. You're not in danger of accidentally buying a 7100U to put into your NAS.

If you look at the products that are actually compatible with your system, it's not confusing at all. Pentium/Celeron/i3/Xeon = has ECC, i5/i7 = no ECC.

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