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I was browsing intel's database of chips and came across this gem ( https://ark.intel.com/products/97460/Intel-Pentium-Processor-G4620-3M-Cache-3_70-GHz ) The pentium G4620.  It's a Kaby-Lake dual-core with hyperthreading.  Everything was normal until I saw that it supports ECC memory?  Is this a mistake?  Why would a pentium support ECC, and then ECC support goes away for i3, i5, i7 and comes back for Xeon?

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Not a mistake, all pentiums support ECC now. https://ark.intel.com/compare/97486,97465,97143,97460,97453

 

Actually I think all the old ones do too.

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1 minute ago, auraofjason said:

Not a mistake, all pentiums support ECC now. https://ark.intel.com/compare/97486,97465,97143,97460,97453

what purpose does that serve? Are pentiums used in low-power enterprise servers now?

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1 minute ago, littlepigboy5 said:

what purpose does that serve? Are pentiums used in low-power enterprise servers now?

Maybe they are binned xeons.

Just an idea..........

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1 minute ago, Ezio Auditore said:

Maybe they are binned xeons.

Just an idea..........

I feel like, and i know little about die manufacturing (i probably spelled die wrong), ECC is something done with intention, meaning that they aren't going to enable ECC and THEN fuck up and make it a pentium.  make sense?  maybe not

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2 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

Maybe because the Pentiums are made on the same fab line as the Xeons and turning ECC off increases the price?

 

Would explain why they're so cheap.

maybe

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6 minutes ago, littlepigboy5 said:

maybe

Because there's a market for home servers, and Intel sees this and enables ECC for the home user who thinks they actually need it. 

 

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I would think it's something that could be turned off in the CPU microcode but that would mean an extra step in the binning process and pointless because how many customers using ecc ram will not be purchasing a pentium

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