“"12th Generation Core processors support ECC when paired with W680 platforms. In fact, even enthusiast-grade Core i9-12900K gains ECC support when paired with W680." - Intel spokesperson.”
This is a bit confusing: why single out the i9-12900K? The way that sentence follows the first, it seems that it is the only CPU that will gain ECC support.
Intel's product segmentation strategy used to keep the -K parts' unlocked multiplier and the Xeon E3's ECC as mutually exclusive features, so the ECC support on the 12900K is the most surprising and significant part of this strategy change.
Aside from the -K parts, the consumer CPU product line generally offered just a subset of the entry-level Xeon series capabilities, at roughly equal speeds
Needs a relatively rare and expensive W680 board to work. I’ve looked for them. Rare and hard to actually find one for sale, especially in ITX[0]. In past generations, Core i3s also had official ECC support with certain workstation boards (though not consistently - there is at least one generation where the i3 did not support ECC in recent years).
[0] If it was mATX or ATX, I’d just use a non-APU Ryzen with an ASRock AM4 board - they had the most consistent ECC support in the AM4 socket, though are completely lacking it in AM5. This is the route I eventually went.
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[ 63.6 ms ] story [ 798 ms ] threadits still artificially segmented exclusively for workstations
Aside from the -K parts, the consumer CPU product line generally offered just a subset of the entry-level Xeon series capabilities, at roughly equal speeds
I *detest* the crazy industry politics that made ECC memory so “special”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33224680
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[0] If it was mATX or ATX, I’d just use a non-APU Ryzen with an ASRock AM4 board - they had the most consistent ECC support in the AM4 socket, though are completely lacking it in AM5. This is the route I eventually went.