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Or he could have waited a few months and gotten ECC anyway: http://ark.intel.com/products/88171/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E3-...

[yuhong]

Interestingly, the only vendor which sells 16GB unbuffered ECC DDR4 DIMMs seems to be Crucial: http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/ct16g4wfd8213

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E3 DIMMs have always been rare and usually expensive; I wish Intel would enable regular registered DIMMs.

[yuhong]

The funny thing is that they still so expensive when the x8 chips are so cheap.