On 2/22/2011 6:00 AM, Gary Driggs wrote:
On Feb 22, 2011 Orvar Korvar wrote:
This means I have to buy a Xeon grade Sandy Bridge, which sucks. I would prefer
a cheap i5/whatever.
Actually, the mobile core i5-2515E& i7-2715QE will allegedly include ECC RAM
support so don't be surprised if some desktop class CPUs will also.
-Gary
I highly doubt Intel will do this. There's no technical reason not to,
but it's a product-line differentiator for them. They could do it now,
but don't, and I can't see any reason for them to change their behavior.
Remember that a i7 and a Xeon 5xxx are effectively identical CPUs (even
today), except for the fact that the Xeons have an ECC-enabled Memory
controller.
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Erik Trimble
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