Intel has been pretty intent on making ECC server-only. I used their HEDT platforms for years and never had ECC. AMD is much nicer about the thing; if you want to use ECC on their HEDT platform, you can if you want. It's not super supported, but it's also not a $5000 upgrade. (Though my understanding is that ECC is mandatory for the current generation of Threadripper? That's great!)
Re:Why Use ECC Memory
by steve_rambo on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @06:56PM
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ECC is fully supported by consumer AMD processors (at least Ryzen 7000, and I think earlier ones too). You need to pick a matching motherboard, most boards from ASRock will do. And you need to find unbuffered ECC RAM, this is more difficult than the previous two and is why I had to give up on the whole idea.
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Only in the sense of "Intel is responsible for most of computation" ... No one uses ECC pervasively anywhere, that's sort of the point of the article.