On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 02:51:57PM -0400, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
It would be kind of scary to think that the Intel server processors are just failed consumer products.
Well the dies have variations. They have chosen a different requirement for the i7 than the E3. Servers usually have better cooling design, so 80W is no big deal. It is just as likely a chip with a broken ECC memory controller could end up as a lower end i7 or even i5 chip.
Does that mean that they are also turning off the ECC in the I7? What about the ECC in the cache( I know some processors carry ECC through the cache but not sure about Intel )?
Yes they would be just turning off ECC support. Internally I am pretty sure even the i7 runs with ECC on the cache. -- Len Sorensen