The Sad End of Intel Desktop Boards

Re:The Sad End of Intel Desktop Boards by CoolGuySteve on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @10:59AM (#21525552)

It seems backwards but late revision high end gaming boards have economies of scale that force the manufacturers into making stable boards to reduce RMA volume. The boards also tend to be cheaper too due the same economies of scale.

The VRM and other power delivery circuits on overclocking boards are also typically engineered to handle much higher voltages than spec.

Avoid the first revision though, which is probably good advice for any device.

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Re:The Sad End of Intel Desktop Boards by jandrese on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @12:26PM (#21526753)

Do the gaming boards support ECC memory however? That's usually the one major difference between a high performance gaming board and a basic workstation board. Sometimes they'll even have a chipset that has ECC support, but the BIOS will disable it because they hate you.

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Re:The Sad End of Intel Desktop Boards by seminatl on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @12:31PM (#21526828)

That's the big question. It seems like many AMD AM4 socket boards claim to support it. Few Intel boards do, unless you go with a Xeon socket. You can never really tell if they've done it properly until you get one on the bench and decode its DMI tables.

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