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List:       opensolaris-discuss
Subject:    Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post
From:       Gary Driggs <gdriggs () gmail ! com>
Date:       2011-02-22 16:48:03
Message-ID: 27E18B02-4D2E-45D6-ADA3-D13CC9EA996F () gmail ! com
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On Feb 22, 2011, at 7:43 AM, Erik Trimble wrote:

> 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. 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Erik Trimble
> Java System Support
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