I was considering an ECC ram after this catastrophic experience. And I ran dual Xenons 20 years ago. What astonishes me is the number of different models of any CPU. The W-1200 has 43 different CPU choices ranging from $400 to $4000.
________________________________ From: Hardware <hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com> on behalf of Greg Sevart <ad...@xfury.net> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2021 3:31 PM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com <hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com> Subject: Re: [H] time for upgrade Plus considerably more PCIe lanes--but ultimately an older platform and at a pretty big clock speed disadvantage. -----Original Message----- From: Hardware <hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com> On Behalf Of Al A Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2021 5:01 PM To: Hardware Group <hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com> Subject: Re: [H] time for upgrade I agree with the Xeon. If you can swing it, get the 22xx series Xeon for 4 channel memory. Al On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 8:15 PM Greg Sevart <ad...@xfury.net> wrote: > My recommendation at this point given your requirements would be a > W-1200 series Xeon and ECC Unbuffered memory. > >