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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 18:33:57 +0200
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Am 30.07.2014 13:25, schrieb Rich Freeman:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann
> <volkerarmin@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> pretty easy actually. When I looked for ECC support, ALL Asus boards
>> supported it officially - and a whole bunch of Gigabyte boards according
>> to their forums.
>>
> Interesting, the Gigabyte board I'm using makes no mention of it.
> Just something that needs to be considered up-front.
>
> It is still a constraint though - if only 10% of the boards support
> ECC on the AMD side, then you're committing to an AMD CPU, and you may
> find it harder to find the other features you're looking for (number
> of RAM slots, PCI(e) ports, SATA ports, SLI/crossfire, clock control,
> good price, etc).
>
> Rich
>
>
Asus M5A99X Evo 2.0

had all I ever wanted. Plus something.

My old gigabyte does not mention ECC either. But the Gigabyte Forums
said yes.

Seriously, it looks like you guys are making excuses ...